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Where Are The Semantics In The Semantic Web?
Hardwired semantics versus public semantics
The general case of automatically determining the meaning of Web content is somewhere between intractable and impossible. Thus, a human will always be hardwiring some of the semantics into Web applications. The question is what is hardwired and what is not? The shopping agent…
Shopping agents as a degenerate Semantic Web
...it is useful to collectively regard shopping agents as a degenerate case of the Semantic Web. Shopping agents work in the complete absence of any explicit account of the semantics of Web content because the meaning of the Web content that the agents are expected to encounter…
Where are the semantics?
The most widely accepted defining feature of the Semantic Web is machine-usable content. By this definition, the Semantic Web is already manifest in shopping agents that automatically access and use Web content to find the lowest air fares, or book prices. But where are the…
Four routes to Semantic Web progress
We anticipate that progress in development of the Semantic Web will take place by: 1. Moving along the semantic continuum from less clearly specified (implicit) semantics to more clearly specified (formal) semantics. 2. Reducing the amount of hardwiring that is necessary…
Machines must know what content means
The most frequently quoted defining feature of the Semantic Web is machine usable Web content. Fundamentally, this requires that machines must “know” how to recognize the content they are looking for, and they must “know” what to do when they encounter it. This “knowledge”…
Publicly declared concepts in the semantic web
The assumption that there will be terms whose meaning is publicly declared and thus sharable is critical to making the Semantic Web work. Although we brought up this issue in the context of machine processible semantics, it is equally important when the semantics are hardwired…