Re: FW: emergent semantics: alternative to the Semantic Web





Steve, Michael

I’ve now also looked at this article positioning Sony’s ‘emerging
semantics’ technology and also consider it to be a, well travelled,
complimentary strand to mainstream descriptive Semantic Web Technologies.

As I am sure you are aware, there are a number of individuals and groups
around the world currently interested in complementary semantic ‘web’
approaches, some of which also expect self-organising characteristics to be
an outcome of their work. For me, I find it invigorating to see that a
number of others share the opinion that the eventual cumulative experience
associated with the Semantic Web will involve a rich mixture of technical
approaches; some deliberately descriptive, some deliberately prescriptive
and some deliberately fuzzy and noncommittal. Such is the way of the world
and the expressiveness of their ultimate combination will, almost
undoubtedly, be awesome.

Obviously, by necessity, we need to concentrate on guardianship of
particular solution approaches but it is still always wise to keep an open
mind.....!

My 2 cents also.... ;0)

Kind Regards

Phil Tetlow
Senior Consultant
IBM Business Consulting Services
Mobile. (+44) 7740 923328


                                                                           
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Uschold, Michael F wrote:
> http://www.eetimes.com/article/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=51201131

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> an interesting technical counter-proposal to SW technology by Sony -

Hmm ... "emergent semantics" ... bzzzzzz!  ;)

IMO this is a "counter-proposal" in marketing only.  The techniques
they discuss are already applied in data-mining.  Perfectly valid,
but not "counter":  this is just the age-old dichotomy between
"descriptive" vs. "prescriptive" paradigms -- they are complementary,
and have overlapping use-cases.  We all know that SW technology is
beginning to be applied to B2B use-cases, in which it will be
strongly prescriptive (parties better darn well know what they mean
by "invoice"! ;) ... however, descriptive techniques can help
arrive at an optimal prescriptive B2B standard by analyzing how
B2B data are used in practice.  Etc.

My 2 cents.  :)

Steve

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