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Mike Champion wrote:
> What struck me is that the "AI" approach (I'll guess it makes heavy use
> of pattern matching and statistical techniques such as Bayesian
> inference) is working with raw text that the authors are deliberately
> trying to obfuscate the meaning of to get past "keyword" spam filters,
> and the Semantic Web approach seems to require explicit, honest markup.
> Given the "metacrap" argument about semantic metadata
> (http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm) I suspect that in general
> the only way we're going to see a "Semantic Web" is for
> statistical/pattern matching software to create the semantic markup and
> metadata.
It's an artifcial distinction, tho' we've been through here before:
http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200207/msg01498.html
There I linked to a paper about a hybrid architecture called
InteRRaP, one project that helped consign the scruffy/neat debate in
AI to irrelevance. It seems inevitable that similar hybrid
architectures will appear on the web; RSS feeds, weblogs and search
engines make a fine primordial soup.
Bill de hÓra
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