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2005-07-14
Semantic Web @ AAAI 2005 - part 2
Yesterday, Jim Hendler gave a great presentation on the Semantic Web. He pointed out that over the past 15 or so years, some notable folks (Ed Feigenbaum, et al) have called for a knowledge infrastructure to be constructed and deployed. Some of Jim's points were:
The Semantic Web is the called-for knowledge infrastructure and it is here, now.
Semantic Web formalisms (RDF, OWL) may not be great KR languages (from the research viewpoint), but they are standards and will allow qualitatively new kinds of intelligent systems to be constructed (ones that can interoperate with others).
Finally we are at a stage where we can adopt someone else's ontology without adopting their tool(s).
Compared to the volume of data and number of users of Web applications, most AI applications (even the most famous deployed ones) are merely "nice demonstrations".
Swoogle indexes hundreds of thousands of Semantic Web documents and thousands of ontologies; this may not seem much from the Web viewpoint, but is huge from the AI viewpoint.
Why this presentation was scheduled at the same time as another invited talk on metadata I do not understand...
Posted by ora at 10:16