xml-dev - RE: RDF, the "semantic web",and the nadir of AI (was RE: Realist icpropo

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

What if that were applied to schema instead of full text?  
The application of markup vocabularies infers that a 
vocabulary is designed and gets support from some set 
of users by some means.  Discovering a vocabulary exists 
is an issue and proving it is useful for the process 
is an issue.  But that is what UDDI, BizTalk etc are 
there to do:  enable the designer to create processes for 
discovery and negotiation that precede automated business.

Step back and say, ok, let's put the semantic 
web term to the side for just second and talk about inference 
engines and RDF, arcs, classes, etc., then ask, what are 
the services that such an engine provides.   The answers 
to that might bridge the poles of services and semantics 
such that we are back to an explainable concept we can 
articulate in terms of the current architectures coming 
out of the mainstream vendors by showing the inferencing 
based on RDF not as a vision, but as another set of tools 
and techniques extending the current pool.  That's a win.

Len Bullard
Intergraph Public Safety
clbullar@ingr.com
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard

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-----Original Message-----
From: KenNorth [mailto:KenNorth@email.msn.com]

Some time ago I wrote a Web Techniques article that discussed NLM's MeSH,
domain vocabularies, and search engines such as WHIRL (which uses pattern
recognition to support similarity searches). My suggestion was we should
integrate the techniques. Use domain experts to build vocabularies, with
machine analysis to continually scan and analyze the literature to surface
new terms that have entered the vocabulary of practitioners.