Re: reference: a challenge for skos

* Miles, AJ (Alistair)  <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk> [2004-08-11 16:31+0100]
> 
> > Thanks for this. I'm inclined to agree with his conclusion, which is
> > that we're not trying to solve the same problem. I wonder if we should
> > say something like this in the Web somewhere? eg.: SKOS represents 
> > thesaurus-like data structures in an explicit and extensible format. 
> > While these structures might be useful resources for researchers  
> > engaged in automatic classification, parsing/interpreting 
> > unstructured text, Natural Language Processing, etc., SKOS is not 
> > expected to solve the difficult problems associated with 
> > mapping from a 
> > stream of characters to a structure which normalises them into
> > references to uniquely identified 'concepts'. Machine 
> > interpretation of 
> > human-generated text is related to the general problems of artificial
> > intelligence (eg. common sense reasoning, background knowledge, etc),
> > ie. a known 'very hard problem'. SKOS attempts to address an easier
> > problem space: data sharing amongst thesaurus-based applications. It
> > does not make any grand claims regarding the utility of home-grown or 
> > specialist-maintained thesauri in everyday and scientific life, beyond
> > noting that they are widely used and that the lack of a modern,
> > Web-friendly data model and syntax has hampered the exchange 
> > and mapping
> > of thesaurus datasets, and their use in Web applications.
> > 
> > Bit wordy, maybe?
> 
> Sounds pretty darn good to me.  
> 
> I did set up a wiki page for a SKOS FAQ
> <http://esw.w3.org/topic/SkosDev/SkosFaq> a while back - I keep meaning to
> put in some work on that - this would be a good thing to put there, although
> we'd have to work out exactly what question it's answering :)

Q: I'm trying to build thinking machines that can read and understand
Web pages, and hence absorb all of human knowledge and take over the
world. SKOS is all I need, right?

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