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Not "until machines think" but "As We May Think". Perhaps it will work better if instead of trying to figure out if schemas provide semantics, the thread should look at stochastic processes and work out which kinds of schemas improve the uncertainty problem of choosing among a set of equally probable next terms. That, IMO, is the actual reason we use multiple application vocabularies: improving the coding to compress the communication. All a semantic web does is restrict the domain of a function for choosing among alternatives. Hooray. We can drop the rant about an "intelligent web". Message to MS: reel in the Boss. He is dripping. "The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point. Frequently the messages have meaning; that is, they refer to or are correlated according to some **system** with certain physical or conceptual entities. These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem. The significant aspect is that the actual message is one selected from a set of possible messages. The **system must be designed to operate for each possible selection not just the one that will actually be chosen since this is unknown at the time of design." A Mathematical Theory of Communication Claude Shannon - 1948 Asterisk emphasis on **system** is mine. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Hodder, Ed [mailto:Ed.Hodder@B...] Two things. First, the above sentence should be "So to my mind there is no absolute semantics, or more precisely meaning, to jdkdsfjkds." Second, if instead of laying down an absolute definition of 'car' or better 'title' you could define or describe the context where it means one thing instead of another then you might be on to something. But then you'd have to count on users or developers putting it in the right context and you might as well be using Word again. Until machines think . . . Are there any linguists at the W3?
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