Sean:
That might be useful to a human (which is why I
used it in the prose), but it's not going to be useful to a machine, which is
what the goal of the Semantic Web is.
Seth:
I agree with Aaron, this is not strictly
true. There are many things that ~the machine~ can do for us using arc
labels like 'kindaLike' that have nothing to do with logical
inference. Picture each arc label like a rubber band between
clusters of information ... the more rubber bands that are asserted between
those clusters the stronger the pull is between the clusters, and so
the closer those information clusters are in the context space.
'kindaLike' is gonna be a very useful rubber band :)
Seth Russell
----- Original Message -----From: Aaron SwartzSent: Monday, August 27, 2001 9:03 PMSubject: SWAG: Re: & kindaLike that tooOn Monday, August 27, 2001, at 08:48 PM, Sean B. Palmer wrote:
> I'm not too keen on "kindaLike" because all it does is state
> that there is
> some level of equivalence between a subject and an object, but
> it doesn't
> state the level of that equivalence. That might be useful to a
> human (which
> is why I used it in the prose), but it's not going to be useful to a
> machine, which is what the goal of the Semantic Web is. To get
> machines to
> do all of the dirty work.
Actually that's not completely true. Montonic systems (or is it
non-monotonic... I can never remember) may use kindaLike to make
tentative inferences. It's rather useful for a large number of
applications.
"I see you're buying this book... these other books are kinda
like that one, and may also be interesting to you."
"I see you're searching for crocodiles in Florida. I've heard
that alligators are kinda like crocodiles. Would you like to see
alligators in Florida?"
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[ "Aaron Swartz" ; <mailto:me@aaronsw.com> ; <http://www.aaronsw.com/> ]
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