Re: Is Semantic Web possible ?

http://dannyayers.com/archives/002016.html
and/or http://dannyayers.com/archives/002017.html
are quite interesting to read on this.


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following an application of "shirky logics" (SL) to his own article
(sorry that I can't provide you with a S&AS document, but I hope an
example illustrates its usage):

source (http://www.shirky.com/writings/semantic_syllogism.html)
>The people working on the Semantic Web greatly overestimate the 
>value of deductive reasoning (a persistent theme in Artificial
>Intelligence projects generally.) The great popularizer of this
>error was Arthur Conan Doyle, whose Sherlock Holmes stories have
>done more damage to people's understanding of human intelligence
>than anyone other than Rene Descartes

step1: remove sentences and words that don't lead to your wanted 
conclusion:
>The people working on the Semantic Web greatly overestimate the 
>value of deductive reasoning. The great popularizer of this was
>Arthur Conan Doyle, whose Sherlock Holmes stories have done 
>damage to human intelligence.

step2: conclude by picking and mixing the remaining words and 
sentences, use triple-like notations if you like:

SherlockHolmes isWorkinOn TheSemanticWeb.
ArthurConanDoyle isPopularizerOf PeopleWorkingOnTheSemanticWeb
TheSemanticWeb overestimates PopularityOfSherlockHolmes
Popularity damages Intelligence
Conan isA Destroyer
[I'll better stop here, it's getting political ;-)]

anyone willing to build an SL Test Manifest so that I can test my 
soon-2B-launched SL API (SLAP)?
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ben jammin'


Stephane Fellah (fellah@pcigeomatics.com) schrieb am 10.11.2003:
>
>Hi,
>
>To those of us believing in Semantic Web, meta-data, ontologies and
>such, this article by Clay Shirky:
>
>	http://www.shirky.com/writings/semantic_syllogism.html
>
>might be quite traumatic.  It posits that real world is too fuzzy and
>too messy for any clean, deductive scheme to succeed.
>I am curious to get your opinion on this article.
>
>Good read :-)
>
>Best regards
> 
>Stephane Fellah
>Senior Software Engineer
> 
>PCI Geomatics
>490, Boulevard St Joseph
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> 
>
>

Received on Monday, 10 November 2003 13:57:05 UTC