Document Services Community Group

Semantic Web Interest Group,

Exciting news: a new Community Group is proposed here: https://www.w3.org/community/ , the Document Services Community Group. Please feel free to login to the W3C community page and to support creation of the new group.

Also, some discussion is underway here: https://github.com/WICG/proposals/issues/19 . Please feel free to join the discussion.

The gist is to develop and standardize an architecture for document services, client-local, on-prem, or remote services on documents, document elements, or ranges of content. Examples of document services include: spellchecking, grammar checking, proofreading, fact checking, mathematical proof checking, reasoning checking, and argumentation checking. Imagine being able to check, in real-time, if a document has any informational, warning, or error messages with respect to its factuality or any steps of its reasoning. Tools for authoring and reviewing documents, in these regards, would be useful across sectors, across industry, academia, military, and government, with specific applicability to journalism, encyclopedias, digital textbooks, and science.

Three broad varieties of document services are, thus far, considered. Firstly, there are services which adhere to an informational message, warning, error pattern. Secondly, there are services which offer corrections, recommendations, or options for users. Thirdly, there are services which provide metadata about documents, document elements, or ranges of content (e.g. word count, reading level).

Here are a few hyperlinks which highlight the intersection of artificial intelligence and document services.

With respect to grammar checking:
https://www.grammarly.com/

With respect to fact checking:
https://www.logically.ai/
https://fullfact.org/
https://adverifai.com/

With respect to narrative checking:
https://authors.ai/

Many AI technologies will be facilitated by new architecture for document services in Web browsers. We hope to facilitate these technologies in the proposed Document Services Community Group: https://www.w3.org/community/ . Please feel free to login to the W3C community page and to support creation of the new group!


Best regards,
Adam Sobieski