November 10, 2004, 3:12 pm
Shortcutting the Semantic Web
By d/D
The W3C’s Semantic Web project is an attempt to define the attributes necessary to make Web data usable by database applications as well as people. Now, Sony Computer Science Laboratory is promoting its “emergent semantics” technology as an alternative. Instead of a markup-level tagging system, Sony’s system looks at how content is accessed and shared:
“In emergent semantics, a user’s agent bootstraps the information and categorization of content, such as the classification of music in genres. Through interactions among agents trading ‘favorite’ songs, genres emerge that are common to sets of users. Such emergent semantics as self-organizing genres are automatically tagged onto the content as an extra layer of information rather than depending on people to do the tagging”
http://www.eetimes.com/article/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=51201131
The W3C’s Semantic Web home page is at:
