Semantics Scales Up: Beyond Search in Web 3.0
by Amit Sheth
Semantics can enhance a broad variety of information processing — search, integration, analysis, pattern extraction and mining, discovery, situational awareness, and question-answering. Consider search: a search system that could distinguish between "Merry Christmas" as a greeting and one of the 60 or so songs named "Merry Christmas" as cataloged in MusicBrainz (a community-created music encyclopedia; http://musicbrainz.org) would have a powerful semantic search capability. READ FULL ARTICLE (login required) »