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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'
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