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Thanks Bill, life really won't be the once the inevitable (hybrid) permathread, loop and limeric tracker's been implemented... > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill de hÓra [mailto:bill@d...] > Sent: 24 April 2003 22:33 > To: Mike Champion > Cc: xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: Statistical vs "semantic web" approaches to > making sense of the Net > > > Mike Champion wrote: > > > What struck me is that the "AI" approach (I'll guess it makes heavy use > > of pattern matching and statistical techniques such as Bayesian > > inference) is working with raw text that the authors are deliberately > > trying to obfuscate the meaning of to get past "keyword" spam filters, > > and the Semantic Web approach seems to require explicit, honest > markup. > > Given the "metacrap" argument about semantic metadata > > (http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm) I suspect that in general > > the only way we're going to see a "Semantic Web" is for > > statistical/pattern matching software to create the semantic markup and > > metadata. > > It's an artifcial distinction, tho' we've been through here before: > > http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200207/msg01498.html > > There I linked to a paper about a hybrid architecture called > InteRRaP, one project that helped consign the scruffy/neat debate in > AI to irrelevance. It seems inevitable that similar hybrid > architectures will appear on the web; RSS feeds, weblogs and search > engines make a fine primordial soup. > > Bill de hÓra > -- > Propylon > www.propylon.com > 'cc-pbc-bbc' > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> >
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