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Session Outline
• Semantic Matching – An Example
• Semantic Web Applications and Impact
• Semantic Web and Beyond
• Challenges facing Semantic Web Research
Community
Knowledge Management
Semantic Web
▫ It is
i particularly
ti l l iimportant
t t ffor iinternational,
t ti l
geographically dispersed organizations
• Extracting information
▫ Human involvement necessary for browsing,
retrieving, interpreting, combining
• Maintaining information
▫ Inconsistencies in terminology, outdated
information
• Viewing information
▫ Impossible to define views on Web knowledge
▫ Semantic q
query
y answering
g
▫ Ideally
y humans would visit all,, or all
major online stores; but too time
consuming
Limitations of Shopbots
▫ They rely on wrappers: extensive programming
required
▫ Wrappers
pp extract information based on textual
analysis
x Error-prone
x Limited information extracted
• Information
I f ti about
b t th
the reputation
t ti off shops
h
▫D
Data
t will
ill b
be iinterchanged
t h d using
i ttranslation
l ti
services
Semantically
Related
News Not Semantic Search/
Specificall
Specifically Personalization, etc.
Asked For
Knowledge Discovery
Semantic Web
Information Integration
Relationships
Information Simple
Integration + Relationships = Semantic Web
Complex
C l
Semantic Web + Relationships = Knowledge Discovery
Is it really true?
Complex Relationships
▫ A nuclear test could have caused an
earthquake
▫ if the earthquake occurred some time after the
nuclear test was conducted and in a nearby
y
region.
1950
Find the total number of earthquakes with a magnitude
5 8 or higher on the Richter scale per year starting from 1900
5.8
Increase in number of
earthquakes since 1945
Source: http://edcdgs9.cr.usgs.gov/urban/factsht.pdf
April 2002
Semantic Web Technologies
Challenge
g 2: Ontology
gy Availability,
y, Development
p and Evolution
Challenge
g 3: Scalability
y of Semantic Web Content
Challenge 4: Multilinguality
• Multilinguality plays an increasing role at the
level of ontologies,
ontologies of annotations and of user
interface.
Challenge 5: Visualization
• With the increasing amount of information
overload intuitive visualization of content
overload,
will become more and more important.
Challenge
g 6: Semantic Web Language
g g Standardization