Tagging, AI and the Semantic web
Some very interesting things are happening. There is a convergence of bottom-up, top-down and automated classification. Tagging, AI and the Semantic web are on a collision course!
First of all theres all the recent fuss thats emerged over tags, folksominies and collective classification on the web (tagging). This seems to have really been the zeitgeist since the emergence of del.icio.us in November 2004, thats less than 4 months ago!
Also this week I noticed a story about a paper released in December 2004, that talks about automatic concept abstraction from the web using google page counts! (NGD Classification)
Then of course there are at least 2 longer term projects Ive been aware of for some time that impinge on the same area. The wordNet project .. And the courageous Cyc project http://www.opencyc.org/faq/opencyc_faq, which aims to build the same capability by hand! The Cyc project has recently gone opensource, and is now positioning itself as a translator of sorts for what they expect to be a diverse array of differing ontologies behind different systems needing to communicate... Something interesting that I've kept an eye on for sometime is the OpenMind project, which aims to give a system conceptual understanding by using an army of volunteers to provide responses to web based questions and images etc that can be used by the system to learn. (Via Brain Dump)
First of all theres all the recent fuss thats emerged over tags, folksominies and collective classification on the web (tagging). This seems to have really been the zeitgeist since the emergence of del.icio.us in November 2004, thats less than 4 months ago!
Also this week I noticed a story about a paper released in December 2004, that talks about automatic concept abstraction from the web using google page counts! (NGD Classification)
Then of course there are at least 2 longer term projects Ive been aware of for some time that impinge on the same area. The wordNet project .. And the courageous Cyc project http://www.opencyc.org/faq/opencyc_faq, which aims to build the same capability by hand! The Cyc project has recently gone opensource, and is now positioning itself as a translator of sorts for what they expect to be a diverse array of differing ontologies behind different systems needing to communicate... Something interesting that I've kept an eye on for sometime is the OpenMind project, which aims to give a system conceptual understanding by using an army of volunteers to provide responses to web based questions and images etc that can be used by the system to learn. (Via Brain Dump)
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