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 [...]

Web 3.0 is Hard, Slow Work

Virtual Barn-Raising Underway–How to feel as if you’re part of something big
The next generation web, whatever catchphrase will finally be attached to it, is hardly a magical divination. There is currently very tedious work going on, especially in deeper recesses where labels like “semantic” and “natural language” are pitched out onto the field.
Private beta versions [...]

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 [...]

Semantic Database Open for All: Why Freebase Matters

An Alpha database casually inviting everyone to add their special know-how.
Freebase, an intended database of “the world’s knowledge,” powered by MetaWeb, may appear to be many different things depending upon your perspective/vantage point.
In its own words: “Freebase is an open database of the world’s information.” The goal: collect and structure the universe of data for [...]

New Biomedical Semantic Search Engine

GoPubMed’s Cool Feature…   
GoPubMed is a new semantic search engine designed to deliver the ultimate research muscle to the biomedical, medical, and life sciences realm. Researchers, scientists, and general users may gain quicker more “cross-pollinated” search results for deeply layered data requests.
One of the more intriguing features of GoPubMed is the “Hot Research.” This is [...]

Who is Cyc?

Some search engines vie for fairy dust, others just ante up the goods.

Semantic search engines vie to harness the same fairy dust as did Google–once upon a time. But charismatic, enigmatic, and dismissive geeky upstarts that make billions upon billions of dollars of course earn as many foes as they do dough. My point is [...]

Semantic Suggestion

New Search “Signage” Fills the Gap Between Now and Later
On 9/28 the Hakia blog post stirred the pot of interesting semantic web issues–my essential takeway: are we at a point in which we are technologically mature enough to handle SW, or are our behaviors and satisfactions attached to technology (current search engines) too rooted to [...]

Web Search: It’s a Maturity Thang

Growing pains: Search engines, web design, web writers, internet users.
If we could plot the web savvy of the virtual collective, at what point in a lifecycle–human, let’s say–would we be? Infancy? Dangerous toddler? Terrible twos? Confused tween? Self-destructive teen?
Factors that dispute the comprehension/comprehensiveness and challenge the “learning” abilities of both keyword-based and semantic (linguistic meaning) [...]

Attaching Semantic Meaning to Google Maps

Spontaneous creation of the semantic topology of maps.

Google Maps is evolving, and, like semantic web, the more people use it to map locations and points of interest the more it weaves a fabric of meaning around a point or set of points on a map. For example, today I was researching a few cities in [...]