ReadWriteWeb

The Robot Made Me Do It: Comparing Three New Cyborg Q&A Services ReadWriteWeb, CA - Marshall Kirkpatrick Logic: There appears to be some semantic analysis of the tags given users by their friends and themselves, cross referenced with semantic analysis of the questions asked in order to find the right fit. We presume there is or will be some logic judging …

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Dan Grigorovici
SemanticWeb.com Contributor

Web3Beat Blog

I just read a blog post from Anthony Bradley, a Gartner analyst, in his post “Don’t Be Fooled. Web 3.0 Doesn’t Exist.”

What I am expecting typically from any such strong opinions (if they are to be more than opinions) are some validation of arguments, but unfortunately I don’t see them in your post. I like the opportunity to debate though.

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By Mark Birbeck

WebBackPlane

You don’t need to be an expert to understand the article, and you might find it interesting, even if you know next to nothing about the semantic web.

A fundamental component of the semantic web is the URI. A different way of saying this is that a central requirement of being able to manage human knowledge is having the ability to uniquely identify things. We could use any scheme to identify the things that humans want to store information about, but it just so happens that through an interesting sequence of events relating to the internet, the most popular and enduring has been the URI.

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Tom Dunlap
SemanticWeb.com Contributor

I have a feeling we’re overreacting to this Swine Flu outbreak. At the risk of being callous, don’t a certain amount of people die from various strains of the flu every year? Nevertheless, the Web is driving new disease-tracking and prevention tools.

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I came across this in the Ontolog-Forum, and got permission from Mike Bennett, the author, to quote it.  Some great pragmatism here: on the one hand, we need to apply semantics and ontology building to systems development and integration, but at the same time, let’s not get too carried away trying to "model reality." 

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I cam across this in the Ontolog-Forum, and got permission from Mike Bennett, the author to quote it.  Some great pragmatism here, on the one hand we need to apply semantics and ontology building to systems development and integration, but at the same time, let’s not get too carried away trying to "model reality." 

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CMSWire

Nstein Updates Web CMS Platform, Supports 3rd Party Extensions CMSWire, CA - David Roe, David Roe As it stands they include: Semantic Text Mining assistant where semantic Tags are automatically generated — and verified by editors. Extendable sidebar that puts all utilities such as quick search, action history and quick section on a single panel. …

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GoOn Research and Development Project Wins Theseus-Mittelstand Newswire Today (press release), UK Over the next two years, the project —based on the results of Theseus One— will develop praxis-relevant semantic technologies for information handling in the biomedical domain. The first goal of the project is to develop a specialized search engine to …

ISS Awarded Follow-on DARPA Technology Transition Task PR Web (press release), WA Further, integration of entity extraction and semantic clustering capabilities empowers the analyst’s ability to exploit large volumes of unstructured text and make the resultant extracted information actionable and in context of other available webtas …