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• To: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Subject: Re: Statistical vs "semantic web" approaches to makingsense of the Net
• From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Bill_de_h=D3ra?= <bill@d...>
• Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:33:03 +0100
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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
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