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Challenging the Ideas Behind the Semantic Web

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the there-isn't-any-deception-on-the-internet dept.

mytrip writes to tell us that after a recent presentation to the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Tim Berners-Lee was challenged by fellow Google exec Peter Norvig citing some of the many problems behind the Semantic Web. From the article: "'What I get a lot is: "Why are you against the Semantic Web?" I am not against the Semantic Web. But from Google's point of view, there are a few things you need to overcome, incompetence being the first,' Norvig said. Norvig clarified that it was not Berners-Lee or his group that he was referring to as incompetent, but the general user."

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  1. Semantics... by Thakandar2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Norvig clarified that it was not Berners-Lee or his group that he was referring to as incompetent, but the general user."

    Here I was, thinking we were arguing over Semantics...

  2. Damn by ErikTheRed · · Score: 4, Funny
    "...Norvig clarified that it was not Berners-Lee or his group that he was referring to as incompetent, but the general user."
    Because Norvig vs. Berners-Lee going 10 rounds in a cage is something I'd pay to see.
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  3. Re:Problems w/ the Semantic Web by ErikTheRed · · Score: 1, Funny

    Could be worse. You could try to make it find something useful within the domain "myspace.com".

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  4. That:s it gentlemen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The jig is up!

  5. Hmph... by Jello+B. · · Score: 5, Funny

    That anti-semantic bastard...

  6. Semantic knigth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    This remind me of the famous Semantic knigth parody...

  7. You need to offer insight, not a mash of opinions by dsmatthews · · Score: 2, Funny

    Google seemed to be looking to the web for meaning, but they should be building their own Ontology of Everything, based on what they find in the content. Let Cyc loose on there caches perhaps would be a good start. Then integrate their Ontology of Everything with those Formal Ontologies that already exist. About Intelligent Searching, when a person asks me for advice, I tap into my Personal Ontology, which has overlap with other ontologies in a domain specific way. i.e. I read information, much of it structured, I then fit it into my Personal Ontology and if required expand my ontology to fit the new information. I may even face a paradigm shift that requires a major restructuring of my Ontology, i.e. I need to have a set of new transforms to link the old with the new in a way that lets me sanely access both. At this point I have acquire new Knowledge which I can now share with people that ask me questions. When I'm talking to a Knowledgeable Source I need to find the Transforms that allow me to incorporate "knowledge of shared knowledge" as well as knowledge of our unique knowledge. This is how we are able to communicate and learn from each other. If I am dealing with a Naive Searcher I need to Probe their Personal Ontology or World View until I am able to construct enough domain specific transforms to allow me to know what they are trying to learn and how best to find it and Teach it to them.