Re: web to semantic web : an automated approach

Ravinder:

I'd also encourage you to take a look at semanticproxy.com - a project by
the Calais team. Though it's just a starting point semanticproxy has a
similar goal - translate any HTTP asset into RDF based semantic metadata.

Regards,

Tom Tague


रविंदर ठाकुर (ravinder thakur) wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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