रविंदर ठाकुर (ravinder thakur) wrote:
Hello Friends,
I have been following semantic web for some time now and have seen
quite a lot of projects being run (dbpedia, FOAF, LOD etc) trying to
generate/organize some semantic content. While these approaches might
have been successful in their goals, one major problem plaguing
semantic web as a whole is the lack of semantic content. Unfortunately
there is nothing in sight that we can rely on to generate semantic
content for the truckloads of information being put on web everyday. I
strongly feel that one of the _wrong_ assumption in semantic web
community is that content creators will be creating a semantic data.
This I think is too much for the asking from even more technically
sound part of web community let along whole of the web community. It
hasn't happened over last so many years and I don't see it happening
in the near future.
To really move the semantic web forward is a mechanism to device a
mechanism to _automatcially_ convert the information over the web to
semantic information. There are many softwares/services that can be
used for this purpose. I am currently developing one prototype for
this purpose. This prototype uses services from
OpenCalais(http://www.opencalais.com/) to convert ordinary text to
semantic form. This service is very limited in what entities supports
at the moment but its a very good start. I am pretty sure there will
be many other good options available that might be unknown to me. The
currently very primitive prototype can be seen at
http://arcse.appspot.com. This currently implements very few of the
ideas I have for this. This is hosted on Google's AppEngine so
sometime gives timeout messages internally so please bear with this :).
This automatic conversion however is not a simple task and needs work
in lot in domains ranging form NLP to artificial intelligence to
semantic web to logic etc. So that's why this mail. I will be more
than happy if we can join together to form a like minded team that can
work on solving this most important problem plaguing semantic web
currently.
Waiting for your suggestions/criticisms. And Happy Diwali
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali> too :)
Ravinder Thakur
PS : I posted similar query here
<http://www.nabble.com/web-to-semantic-web-%3A-an-automated-approach-td20064203.html>as
well. That generated some good debate.
Ravinder,
Please read the various posts I've made about RDF Middleware which is
all about the recently branded "top-down" approach to the Linked Data
Web. From day one, I've always subscribed to the belief that structured
linked data will need to be generated from existing Web content in order
for the Linked Data aspect of the Web to blossom.
Links:
1.
http://www.openlinksw.com/dataspace/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/weblog/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/1454
2.
http://www.openlinksw.com/weblog/public/search.vspx?blogid=127&q=rdf%20middleware&type=text&output=html
3. http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/VirtSponger
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OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
