RE: How will the semantic web emerge

> they can't be used in conjunction with machine-learning.  It seems to
> me, for example, that a useful "hybrid" approach would be to apply
> machine-learning techniques to allow such schemas to evolve from their
> initial definitions with use, hence becoming less static and manually
> maintained.

That's reasonable.  I worked for a time with some technology from MSR
which takes two different relational or XSD schemas and suggests
mappings between them.  This was based purely on analysis of the two
schemas and some instance data -- it is easy to imagine this being
augmented with feedback from thousands of users.

You're right that schema itself is not a bad thing; although I feel that
rdf:type is a stumbling block to RDF adoption right now.

Received on Monday, 19 December 2005 17:48:59 UTC