Semantic Web Getting Real 135
BlueSalamander writes "Tim O'Reilly just did an interview with Devin Wenig, the CEO-designate of Reuters. With no great enthusiasm I started to read yet another interview on how the semantic web was going to make everything great for everybody. Wenig made some good points about the end of the latency wars in news and the beginning of the battle for automatically detecting linkages and connections in the news. Smart news, not just fast news. Great stuff — but just more words? Nope — a little searching revealed that Reuters just opened access to their corporate semantic technology crown jewels. For free. For anyone. Their Calais API lets you turn unstructured text into a formal RDF graph in about one second. I ran about 5,000 documents through it and played with a subset of them in RDF-Gravity. The results were impressive overall. Is this the start of the semantic web getting real? When big names and big money start to act, not just talk, it may be time to pay attention. Semantic applications anyone? The foundation appears to be here."
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Anti- Semantic comments in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... (Score:1, Funny)
Well, I am sure the authors will just call them Anti-Zio[a]ntic comments.
Great, just great ... (Score:5, Funny)
Just what we need. Yet another version of RealPlayer.
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Mr. Wenig must not be all that familiar with
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Semantic web getting real [player]
and immediately thought "it was bad enough when the original web got it"
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The links in that article are neat. I am looking forward to watching the maturity of this!
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