Challenging the Ideas Behind the Semantic Web

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday July 18, 2006 @05:39PM 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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Re:Googlebombing by QuantumFTL · 2006-07-18 18:53 · Score: 4, Informative

Google does not extract any semantics from content. It merely analyses the linking between websites and connects that with keywords. No semantics here.

I believe you are referring to PageRank, which is one of many algorithms used by google to determine search relevance. This article discusses their use of Latent Semantic Indexing, which is a somewhat crude but effective form of sematic inference which is widely used in the field of NLP.