Re: EE Times - Sony lab tips 'emergent semantics' to make sense of Web

Frank van Harmelen wrote:
> 
> I agree. Another way of saying this is that the Sony text confuses a 
> *goal* (Semantic Web) with a *method* to achieve the goal (emergent 
> semantics, according to them).
> 
> I would think that nobody in the Semantic Web community claims that 
> there is only one way of achieving the goal: handcrafted explicit 
> symbolic representations are one way, emergent semantics might well be 
> another.
> 
> So instead of saying:
> "emergent semantics as an alternative to the W3C's Semantic Web"
> they should have said
> "emergent semantics as an alternative *approach* to the W3C's Semantic Web"
> 

"emergent semantics is one of the (many) ways of achieving the goals of the W3C's Semantic 
Web". I just fail to see why it would be an alternative to anything...:-) I actually 
appload the sony technology (if it works, that is;-) as a possible and interesting way to 
build ontologies (or simply metadata) that can be used by the SW... The rest is marketing 
rubbish imho.


> (and even then it is debatable how "alternative" it is, given that lots 
> of existing work is quite in the spirit of "emergent semantics").
> 

exactly


> Frank van Harmelen.
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