Re: MIT's Technology Review Article

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Kat wrote:
> 
> On 27 Sep 2004, at 7:00, cklester wrote:
> > kat, I'd be interested in your viewpoint on what the
> > article refers to as the Semantic Web and its use in AI.
> > <a
> > href="http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/10/frauenfelder1004.asp?trk=">http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/10/frauenfelder1004.asp?trk=</a>
>
> That makes for a pretty biased Ai...

That was somewhat my thought, as well. There are hundreds of languages
on the planet, many of which are represented on the web. How will this
Semantic Web be able to handle the translations?

> Some data is in such form on webpages that not even Google indexes it,
> such as valid data buried in javascript code or linked framesets.
> Creating a whole new XML file, and having a XML tag on each word in
> every existing file, would bloat the internet to a crawl. I've seen
> 5K XML semantic files that had nothing to say.

> to say. Literally. But even files which do appear online often disappear
> after a month, a year,, sometimes a few hours. If there was an automagic
> tagger built, so as to not use a human to tag a file which has a lifetime
> of mere hours,  then why not dispense with tagging, and move that tagger
> to the recipient, and not spew XML/semantics all over the internet?

Not quite the efficiency needed to make the "internet a database." :/

-=ck
"Programming in a state of EUPHORIA."
http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/

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