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(2013) Evolution of semantic systems, Dordrecht, Springer.
Semantic technologies
a computational paradigm for making sense of qualitative meaning structures
Udo Hahn
pp. 151-173
The World Wide Web has become the largest container of human-generated knowledge but the current computational infrastructure suffers from inadequate means to cope with the meaning captured in its interlinked documents. Semantic technologies hold the promise to help unlock this information computationally. This novel paradigm for the emerging Semantic Web is characterized by its focus on qualitative, from the perspective of computers un(der)structured, data, with the goal to "understand" Web documents at the content level. In this contribution, fundamental methodological building blocks of semantic technologies are introduced, namely terms (symbolic representations of very broadly conceived "things' in the real world), relations between terms (assertions about states of the world), and formal means to reason over relations (i.e. to generate new, inferentially derived assertions about states of the world as licensed by rules). We also discuss briefly the current status and future prospects of semantic technologies in the Web.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-34997-3_8
Full citation:
Hahn, U. (2013)., Semantic technologies: a computational paradigm for making sense of qualitative meaning structures, in B. Küppers, U. Hahn & S. Artmann (eds.), Evolution of semantic systems, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 151-173.
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