Re: web to semantic web : an automated approach

Hi Mr. Ravinder

It is a nice idea, why cannot we transform web content to semantic web
content.

This is a necessity and will avoid regeneration of web content as semantic
web data.

Even I am focusing in this direction.

With regards,

Dr. Rajkumar Kannan
Associate Professor
Dept. of Computer Science
Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli, TN, India
URL: http://member.acm.org/~rajkumark/


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On 10/20/08, रविंदर ठाकुर (ravinder thakur) <ravinderthakur@gmail.com>
wrote:
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> any thoughts on this...
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> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:38 AM, ravinder thakur <
> ravinderthakur@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hello friends,
>>
>> I have been following semantic web for some time now and have seen quite a
>> lot of projects being run (dbpedia, FOAF etc) trying to generate some
>> semantic content. While these approaches might have been successful in their
>> goals, one major problem plaguing semantic web as a whole is the lack of
>> semantic content. Unfortunately there is nothing in sight that we can rely
>> on to generate semantic content for the truckloads of information being put
>> on web everyday. I think one of the _wrong_ assumption in semantic web
>> community is that content creators will be creating a semantic data which I
>> think is too much for the asking from even more technically sound part of
>> web community let along whole of the web community. It hasn't happened over
>> last so many years and I don't see it happening in the near future.
>>
>> I think what we need to move the semantic web forward is a mechanism to
>> _automatcially_ convert the information over the web to semantic
>> information. There are many softwares/services that can be used for this
>> purpose. I am currently developing one prototype for this purpose. This
>> prototype uses services from OpenCalais(http://www.opencalais.com/) to
>> convert ordinary text to semantic form. This service is very limited in what
>> entities supports at the moment but its a very good start. I am pretty sure
>> there will be many other good options available that might be unknown to me.
>> The currently very primitive prototype can be seen at
>> http://arcse.appspot.com. This currently implements very few of the ideas
>> I have for this. This is hosted on Google's AppEngine so sometime gives
>> timeout messages internally so please bear with this :).
>>
>> This automatic conversion however is not a simple task and needs work in
>> lot in domains ranging form NLP to artificial intelligence to semantic web
>> to logic etc. So thats why this mail. I will be more than happy if we can
>> join together to form a like minded team that can work on solving this most
>> important problem plaguing semantic web currently.
>>
>> Waiting for your suggestions/criticisms
>> Ravinder Thakur
>>
>>
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