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The semantic web | Start making sense | Economist.com

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The semantic web | Start making sense | Economist.com
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Big and small companies are getting into the business of building an intelligent web of linked data
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http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11002939

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    • bobboynton
      19 months ago


      Well, it is nice that Twine is first on the list!
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    • Greg Boutin Greg Boutin
      19 months ago


      Commented on the article, thought I'd post it here too, to feed the discussion

      Very nice summary of the situation with the semantic web. The semantic web has now reached the point where its main problem lies in increasing its marketability, and finding value propositions that repeatedly engage end users. This is a good place to be in, and one that was only reached recently thanks to the rapid maturation of the core technologies you listed, such as RDF, OWL, SPARQL, microformats etc...

      But standardizing simple data such as names, locations, organizations, and tying them together through simple agent, is one way of making the semantic web a reality.

      Another approach that some organizations have long experimented with -- and that largely led to the skepticism about the semantic web always being "around the corner"-- is to create algorithms that can recognize more complex concepts from largely unstructured data. For instance, recognizing the main ideas raised in a paragraph of a legal document, and tagging them accordingly. I'd like to propose that, for the end user, this is a problem of higher magnitude than recognizing locations or names. Will we get to solving it by working our way up from standardizing data, as RDF/OWL is trying to do, or will smarter agents be the solution. Probably a mix of both. Until then, as you rightly mention, humans are still needed to interpret and process any information that's more complex than a location or a person's name and address.

      To go deeper into the discussion, I think that your users may be interested in knowing about the industry roundtable podcasts we recently launched, which can be found through the "semantic web gang". Given the non-commercial nature of those podcasts, I'm hoping that it won't be considered a shameless plug and more of an information of interest to your readers!!!
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