Matters

SemText: "Last century's artificial intelligence might have had short life, but two of its children are alive and well in the nursery we call the web. One child is statistical and numeric, the numbers game of the Google search engine and Bayesian spam filtering. The other child is the Semantic Web of explicit resource description and first order logic. This presentation will begin with a classic compare and contrast of these children, but then show that the two are not mutually exclusive, and can play together. Services such as statistical indexing may be wrapped in interfaces that use the medium of RDF, and fuzzy relationships can be condensed into clear-cut RDF statements that can be used in relational database-style queries. There is a possible route to exploiting both latent and blatant semantics available in the form of the RDF model, and suggestions on how this may be implemented will be provided. "