IT Systems and Mechanisms Protecting Corporate Intellectual Property

This paper presents the issues concerning knowledge management and, in particular, protected knowledge. It deals with the problem of IT systems and mechanisms whose function it is to protect an organization's intellectual capital. These systems deal with the proper circulation of information, the monitoring of incoming and outgoing information from the organization as well as an effective securing of information stored in electronic form in corporate databases. The paper presents the Intellectual Property Protection System SOWI, which was developed by the author. The system uses an extensive set of semantic net mechanisms for the Polish and the English language that allow it to detect instances of plagiarism cases in suspicious-looking documents. It is also able to protect intellectual property on a level that is far beyond simple text matching. The SOWI system uses a mechanism of semantic compression that has been developed to generalize concepts while comparing documents. The main focus of this work is to give the reader an overview of the architecture and applied mechanisms.