We Will Survive the Linguistic Shift

Keywords or questions: is the difference really that remarkable?
**Keep this in mind: Anyone familiar with the game of Jeopardy knows that an integral part of getting the answer right is the ability to quickly frame it as a question….
A couple of sources I’ve recently read have tried to make a valid argument against any [...]

Semantic Development Relies on User Input

Accuracy of new semantic applications may be directly related to semantic literacy.
Checking out AskWiki inspired me to consider how the new generation of semantic applications — AskWiki and Freebase, among others –will rely heavily on user-generated “knowledge.” But what will happen if users don’t completely understand the semantic templates or commit to comprehensive and concise [...]

True Knowledge: Natural Language Search Engine

Making a natural language search engine for the masses–keep it on the DL.
True Knowledge is an internet search company that has produced as a key product, a new natural language search engine, although they don’t say that. Also missing is “semantic.” I only mention this because it seems to me that True Knowledge and Freebase [...]

Distill Your Own Web Hooch: Help Build Semantic Web

How Might Yahoo! Pipes Add Semantic Meaning to
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Ultimate Word Game

Not talking about search engines-although a good argument could be posited for the “word game” association.
Human Brain Cloud…give it a try.

How Keywords May be Replaced by Old Fashioned WORDS

In the Google, Yahoo! universe keywords have become a commodity–the monetary muscle that drives search development, much the same way as Big Oil has driven energy–up til now. A couple posts ago I referred to the next big push in search–natural language. This sounds way academic for most commoners, but really what it means is [...]

Next Wave: Natural Language Search–Alternative to Keyword Centric Search Engines

What if what we’ve come to know as search were supplanted with an alternative? You’d still enter words to conjure the cyber world to commence search, but maybe it would ask for more natural language structures. Powerset, and others that have engaged in semantic web search, are on the leading edge of–hopefully–transforming search processes to [...]