Semantic Knowledge Technologies and Language Computation

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Fabl - A Native Programming Language for
the Semantic Web

Fabl - A Native Programming Language for
the Semantic Web 02/05/2005 09:29 PM
Fabl - A Native Programming Language for the Semantic Web
http://fabl.net/

Fabl (pronounced "fable") is a native programming language for the Semantic Web. The Fabl object model is the RDF property graph, and the Fabl type system implements a subset of the OWL web ontology language (RDF is the W3C standard data representation for the current generation of Semantic Web technology, while OWL is a W3C standard for describing classes of RDF objects). However, this manual does not assume prior familiarity with RDF, OWL, or other Semantic Web technologies. Learning Fabl is one way of learning about the Semantic Web. Fabl programs themselves are represented as Semantic Web objects. This representation of computation within the Semantic Web allows active content to be integrated seamlessly into RDF repositories, and provides a programming environment which simplifies the manipulation of RDF when compared to use of a conventional language via an API. Fabl programs may be expressed as RDF objects using standard RDF syntax, or via a conventional syntax which might be described as Javascript (or its standardized variant ECMAScript) enhanced with types and qualified property names. The language is designed to be easy to learn for programmers familiar with the conventional JavaScript/HTML/XML/DOM web–programming model. In fact, this alternative syntax allows programmers to create and manipulate RDF objects without needing to learn the XML-based RDF syntax - a syntax that can be difficult to master. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

A Language for Knowledge and Action

A Language for Knowledge and Action 04/27/2004 05:29 PM
Back in 1993 Michael Gelfond and Vladimir Lifschitz published their first paper (PS format) describing the Action Description Language known as "A". The language provided a high-level representation of actions and transitions between action states. The goal was to provide temporal reasoning to computers, allowing them to reason about the past or future using classical logic. Now three AI researchers, Jorge Lobo, Gisela Mendez, and Stuart R. Taylor of Raytheon, have published a paper titled, Knowledge and the Action Description Language A (PDF format) describing an extension to A that allows actions which affect knowledge. Their extensions provide "sensing actions to increase an agents knowledge and non-deterministic actions to remove knowledge". Also supported are hypothetical reasoning and translation of A domain descriptions into epistemic logic programs. With the extensions, A could be interesting for robotics applications.

Language Engineering for the Semantic
Web: A Digital Library for Endangered
Languages

Language Engineering for the Semantic
Web: A Digital Library for Endangered
Languages 06/16/2004 05:17 AM
Language Engineering for the Semantic Web: A Digital Library for Endangered Languages
http://information r.net/ir/9-3/paper176.html

Abstract:
Many languages are in serious danger of being lost and if nothing is done to prevent it, half of the world's approximately 6,500 languages will disappear in the next 100 years. Language data are central to the research of a large social science community, including linguists, anthropologists, archeologists, historians, sociologists, and political scientists interested in the culture of indigenous people. The death of a language entails the loss of a community's traditional culture, for the language is a unique vehicle for its traditions and culture. In this paper, we describe the effort undertaken at Wayne State University to preserve endangered languages using the state-of-the-art information technologies. We discuss the issues involved in such an effort, and present the architecture of a distributed digital library which will contain various data of endangered languages in the forms of text, image, video and audio files and include advanced tools for intelligent cataloguing, indexing, searching and browsing information on languages and language analysis. Various Semantic Web technologies such as XML, OLAC, and ontologies are used so that the digital library is developed as a useful linguistic resource on the Semantic Web. This has been added to the semantic web research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Emerging Internet Technologies - the
Semantic Web - has massive business,
technology, and social applications.A
Workshop in NUI Galway on 1-2 September
will address some of these issues.

Emerging Internet Technologies - the
Semantic Web - has massive business,
technology, and social applications.A
Workshop in NUI Galway on 1-2 September
will address some of these issues. 08/27/2004 01:57 PM
There is a growing user and business interest in being able to transport relevant information between sites. This obviously raises big security issues. The friend of a friend (FOAF)project is a practical experiment designed to identift and solve some of the problems arising from using semantic web technology. [PRWEB Aug 27, 2004]

Magpie - The Semantic Filter and Tool
For the Semantic Web

Magpie - The Semantic Filter and Tool
For the Semantic Web 12/28/2004 06:58 AM
Magpie - The Semantic Filter and Tool For the Semantic Web
http://kmi.open .ac.uk/projects/magpie/main.html

Magpie uses ontology infrastructure to semantically markup web documents on-the-fly. The existing technologies in this problem domain tend to be rather heavyweight, and often modify the appearance of the actual webpage. Whilst these modifications may sometimes be acceptable, sometimes they may be a cause of a serious annoyance on user's behalf. Often, the existing technologies rely on one very specific ontology... To alleviate some of these issues, they started work on the Magpie technology that would be lightweight and provide sufficiently robust and flexible features for semantically enriched browsing. Magpie tool aims to identify and filter out the concepts-of-interest from any webpage it is given. The current set of concepts can be influenced by a selection of a particular ontology of concepts and relations. In addition to identifying the concepts-of-interest that are relevant from the perspective of a particular ontology, each such concept may provide an applicable set of relations or commands that can be executed. Such relationships are both, determined and evaluated dynamically by querying the ontology server. Another feature they believe improves the user's experience is the ability to turn the semantic menus ON or OFF, to highlight all instances belonging to a particular ontological class, to follow and semantically process the links embedded in the document. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Semantic Blogging: Spreading the
Semantic Web Meme

Semantic Blogging: Spreading the
Semantic Web Meme 05/08/2004 06:20 AM
Semantic Blogging: Spreading the Semantic Web Meme by Steve Cayzer
http://snipurl.com/66yj

Steve is a research engineer at Hewlett-Packard's (HP) laboratories in Bristol, England. He is interested in the intersection of semantic web technologies and machine learning techniques, such as automated classification and metadata enrichment. He also has a semantic blog. This paper is about semantic blogging, an application of the semantic web to blogging. The semantic web promises to make the web more useful by endowing metadata with machine processable semantics. Blogging is a lightweight web publishing paradigm which provides a very low barrier to entry, useful syndication and aggregation behaviour, a simple to understand structure and decentralized construction of a rich information network. Semantic blogging builds upon the success and clear network value of blogging by adding additional semantic structure to items shared over the blog channels. In this way we add significant value allowing view, navigation and query along semantic rather than simply chronological or serendipitous connections. Our vision is to use semantic web tools and ideas to help move blogging beyond communal diary browsing to rich information sharing scenarios. We have built a simple prototype as an illustration of this vision. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of the Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Distributed KM - Improving Knowledge
Workers' Productivity and Organisational
Knowledge Sharing with Webl0g-based
Personal Publishing (BlogTalk 2.0
Publication by Martin Rll)

Distributed KM - Improving Knowledge
Workers' Productivity and Organisational
Knowledge Sharing with Webl0g-based
Personal Publishing (BlogTalk 2.0
Publication by Martin Rll) 08/16/2004 06:25 AM
Distributed KM - Improving Knowledge Workers' Productivity and Organisational Knowledge Sharing with Weblog-based Personal Publishing .. written paper

roell.net/publikationen/distributedkm.shtml
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The Gurteen Knowledge Website -
Knowledge Management

The Gurteen Knowledge Website -
Knowledge Management 09/19/2004 06:22 AM
The Gurteen Knowledge Website - Knowledge Management
http://snipurl.com/8zi5

A very comprehensive resource for information on knowledge management. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Adidas wants you to run on computation

Adidas wants you to run on computation 05/06/2004 03:07 AM
Adidas is launching a "smart shoe" next December that modifies its support and responsiveness properties in real-time based on performance.

Each second, a sensor in the heel can take up to 20,000 readings and the embedded electronic brain can make 10,000 calculations, directing a tiny electric motor to change the shoe. The goal is to make the shoe adjust to changing conditions and the runner's particular style while in use.

"What we have, basically, is the first footwear product that can change its characteristics in real time," said Mr. DiBenedetto, who led the group that created the shoe, of its ability to adapt its cushioning as the wearer runs.

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Gallery of Computation

Gallery of Computation 12/31/2004 10:51 AM
Complexification Jared Tarbell 's summer update to the gallery is the most mesmerizing example of computer generated art I"ve ever seen forming on my monitor. The Sand Traveler is a rendering of 1,000 traveling particles, each in pursuit of another. Over time, patterns of travel are exposed as sweeping paths of color.

Complexification Gallery of Computation

Complexification Gallery of Computation 01/01/2005 04:29 AM
Alex posted today .. Complexification .. art by design .. .. gallery .. coders .. Quote:

complexification.net/gallery
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Calculating A Theoretical Boundary To
Computation

Calculating A Theoretical Boundary To
Computation 04/28/2004 08:48 AM

Innovation Brings Quantum Computation
Closer

Innovation Brings Quantum Computation
Closer 07/28/2004 02:46 PM

802.16e positioned to compete against
mobile broadband wireless technologies
such as cellular, the proposed 802.20,
and proprietary technologies

802.16e positioned to compete against
mobile broadband wireless technologies
such as cellular, the proposed 802.20,
and proprietary technologies 08/29/2004 03:57 AM
[PRWEB Aug 29, 2004]

TransAct Technologies Responds to
Questions Related to Its Patent
Allowance Covering Technologies in Its
Epic

TransAct Technologies Responds to
Questions Related to Its Patent
Allowance Covering Technologies in Its
Epic 04/07/2005 07:33 AM
dBusinessNews.com Apr 7 2005 10:26AM GMT

Enpar Technologies raises stake in Green
Environmental Technologies to 19.7%

Enpar Technologies raises stake in Green
Environmental Technologies to 19.7% 02/14/2004 10:52 AM
Canadian Press Feb 14 2004 2:11PM GMT

Do we need the Semantic Web?

Do we need the Semantic Web? 03/14/2005 06:25 PM
ZDNet Mar 12 2005 4:29AM GMT

Semantic Web gets nod from W3C

Semantic Web gets nod from W3C 02/10/2004 07:43 AM
ZDNet UK Feb 10 2004 10:53AM GMT

Are we semantic yet?

Are we semantic yet? 11/10/2003 11:15 PM
I'm about to agree with BurningBird (which I'm always happy to do since she's right so damn often) but in a way that neither of us is going to find very satisfying. IMO, she's right to point out that something important has already begun: My idea of semantic web is if I can look for a poem that uses a metaphor of bird as freedom, and get back poems that have bird as metaphor for freedom. But you know, I don't have to go everywhere in the web to look for this — if I could just do this at...

The Semantic Grid

The Semantic Grid 04/28/2004 05:53 AM
The Semantic Grid
http://www.semanticgrid.org/
e-Science offers a promising vision of how computer and communication technology can support and enhance the scientific process. It does this by enabling scientists to generate, analyse, share and discuss their insights, experiments and results in a more effective manner. The underlying computer infrastructure that provides these facilities is commonly referred to as the Grid. At this time, there are a number of grid applications being developed and there is a whole raft of computer technologies that provide fragments of the necessary functionality. However there is currently a major gap between these endeavours and the vision of e-Science in which there is a high degree of easy-to-use and seamless automation and in which there are flexible collaborations and computations on a global scale. Our vision of the infrastructure that is needed to support the full richness of the e-Science vision draws on research and development in both the Grid and the Semantic Web, and adopts a service-oriented approach. We call it the Semantic Grid. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer Information Blog.

Google and the Semantic Web

Google and the Semantic Web 02/15/2004 03:53 PM
Some fascinating comments coming out of the update Brandy threads : "The goal of a good search engine should be both to understand what a document is really about, and to understand (from a very short query) what a user really wants. And then match those things as well as possible."

Semantic obsolescence

Semantic obsolescence 01/14/2003 12:26 PM
Find me another site that is as semantically rich (other than Joe Clark, who is years ahead of me). Hell, find me another site that even uses XHTML 1.1. (All right, a few blogs use it, but even the W3C home page only uses XHTML 1.0.) I bought into every argument the W3C made that keeping up with their standards, validating with their tools, and using their semantic markup would somehow "future-proof" my site and provide some mystical "forward compatibility". How about some fucking payoff now? How about some fucking compatibility?

Standards are bullshit. XHTML is a crock. The W3C is irrelevant. -- Mark Pilgrim

"tri" I never understand why people need to be on the cutting edge. Don't they know that edges are sharp? For example, I've already had 2 ADOdb problems reported to me that were actually PHP 4.3.0 bugs. And don't get me talking about Apache 2.0...

"zeldman.alfred"

How the Semantic Web Will Really Happen

How the Semantic Web Will Really Happen 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Kendall Grant Clark: A Web of Rules "if the Semantic Web is to happen, it will be because of a...

The Semantic Earth

The Semantic Earth 02/10/2004 02:51 AM
I spent all of December and half of January working on an article for Esther Dyson's Release 1.0. Man, did I learn a lot, including that Esther and Christina Koukkos are uniquely demanding yet patient editors. The article's just come out. Here's the abstract: The Semantic Earth Every business in the world is headquartered on earth. Every employee works somewhere. Every customer is at some location at every moment. Every product is delivered to some spot and every service is performed at some coordinates. Every transaction involves at least one place and usually more than one. And yet, until recently,...

Semantic Web definition

Semantic Web definition 11/11/2003 12:54 PM
The Devil's Dictionary (2.0): Semantic Web An attempt to apply the Dewey Decimal system to an orgy...

Commercializing the Semantic Web

Commercializing the Semantic Web 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
In the first of his reports from the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference, Kendall Clark discusses the path forward for successfully selling and developing Semantic Web technology into industry.

"Bray on the Semantic Web."

"Bray on the Semantic Web." 11/10/2003 11:14 PM

The Semantic Web and SGML

The Semantic Web and SGML 11/10/2003 11:15 PM
Frank thinks that Clay's fogged the issues around the Semantic Web. Frank points to places where the careful construction of industry metadata has resulted in integrated systems that work well. I don't think Clay is arguing that all metadata is bad. Rather, he's saying that it doesn't scale. Yes, the insurance industry might be able to construct a taxonomy that works for it, but the Semantic Web goes beyond the local. It talks about how local taxonomies can automagically knit themselves together. The problem with the Semantic Web is, from my point of view, that it can't scale because taxonomies...

In 75 Words or Less, What is the
Semantic Web?

In 75 Words or Less, What is the
Semantic Web? 11/21/2002 05:00 AM

Tagging and the Semantic Web

Tagging and the Semantic Web 04/11/2005 05:19 PM
Tagging Tagging, i.e. on-the-fly user generated keyword categorization looks like it is becoming the standard way to categorize weblog content,...

The Semantic Web -- Live!

The Semantic Web -- Live! 03/14/2005 06:06 PM

Our very own Mike Linksvayer and Matt Haughey are on a panel at SXSW discussing metadata, the semantic web, and the one-of-a-kind Creative Commons search engine at this very moment. If you're at the Austin Convention Center, get over here to Room 15.

Meaningless but semantic

Meaningless but semantic 09/14/2004 09:13 AM
At a session at foo camp, I went through the tentative chapter outlines of the book I'm plotting. My aim was to ruthlessly use the attendees, getting them to tell me where I'm going wrong and what I should be writing about. And it worked: They poked at the ideas and pointed me in many helpful directions. Thanks, y'all! And it just keeps going: I've been getting incredibly generous email with yet more information and ideas. For example, one came today from Angela Hey chockablock with examples. She writes about some initiatives that have struggled over how human-readable metadata should...

Semantic autos

Semantic autos 09/18/2004 07:01 PM
I was talking with Mark Dionne a couple of days ago about my failed attempt to create a hand gesture that apologizes to drivers for unwarranted honks of annoyance. Today Mark passed along a link to "a car that can wag its tail" that the Car Talk guys mentioned. Little does Mark know that I was on the verge of publishing my own breakthrough idea about this. A few days ago, I nearly hit a car that was making a left into the street because its turn signal simply was not visible from my direction. See the example below. So,...

Semantic Indexing

Semantic Indexing 09/17/2004 08:43 AM
Semantic Indexing
http://www.nitle.org/s emantic_search.php

Semantic indexing is their name for a family of techniques for searching and organizing large data collections. The goal of semantic indexing is to find patterns in unstructured data (documents without descriptors such as keywords or special tags) and use those patterns to offer more effective search and categorization services. Semantic indexing techniques are language-agnostic, so data collections don't have to be in English, or even in any human language at all. For example, they have had good preliminary results in protein structure prediction using algorithms adapted from a text search engine. Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI or LSA, for latent semantic analysis) was originally described in a 1990 paper by Deerwester, Dumais, Furnas, Landauer, and Harshman, and is a topic of active study. You can find links to journal articles and other LSI websites on our refer ences page. This has been added to the semantics web section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

The Birth of the Semantic Web

The Birth of the Semantic Web 12/17/2004 06:37 PM

Semantic integration

Semantic integration 12/02/2003 01:18 AM
Philip Merrick, chairman and CEO of webMethods, uses one of my favorite phrases in an InfoWorld interview published ...

Other uses of semantic schemas

Other uses of semantic schemas 09/07/2002 07:49 AM
Thinking more about the semantic schemas I wrote about last night, I realized that it has more uses. XLink for example has the same problems as RDF. For XLinks to work, you have to add XLink specific syntax to your document. This is far from ideal, which became painfully clear when the first XHTML 2.0 draft was released without XLink support. A semantic schema for XHTML 2.0 can declare that the href attributes generate XLinks. Another example. A month ago, when I tried to add support for XHTML 2.0 to the various browsers, I found out that there's no way to tell the browser what the title of the document is. A semantic schema can declare what the title of a document is. Google needs to know what the title of an xml document is too.

SharePoint Products and Technologies:
Integrating SharePoint Products and
Technologies and Microsoft Office
InfoPath 2003 Sample

SharePoint Products and Technologies:
Integrating SharePoint Products and
Technologies and Microsoft Office
InfoPath 2003 Sample 11/16/2003 11:48 PM
Use these sample files to create custom reporting forms. You can create individual and summary status reports using an InfoPath form library and a SharePoint site. These files include a custom template that provide customized views of the form library.

Preparing for Semantic Web Services

Preparing for Semantic Web Services 05/02/2004 02:51 AM
WebmasterBase May 2 2004 7:15AM GMT
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Semantic Knowledge Technologies and Language Computation