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In Search of ‘Gold Standards’ for the Semantic Web
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content: Wikipedia + UMBEL + Friends May Offer One Approach In the first part of this series we argued for the importance of reference structures to provide the structures and vocabularies to guide interoperability on the semantic Web. The argument was made that these reference structures are akin to human languages, requiring a sufficient richness and terminology to enable nuanced and meaningful communications of data across the Web and within the context of their applicable domains. While the idea of such reference structures is great -- and perhaps even intuitive when likened to human languages -- the question is begged as to what is the basis for such structures? Just as in human languages we have dictionaries, thesauri, grammar and style books or encyclopedia, what are the analogous reference sources for the semantic Web? In this piece, we tackle these questions from the perspective of the entire Web. Similar challenges and approaches occur, of course, for virtually every domain and specific community. But, by focusing on the entirety of the Web, perhaps we can discern the grain of sand at the center of the pearl. Bootstrapping the Semantic Web The idea of bootstrapping is common in computers, compilers or programming. Every computer action needs to start from a basic set of instructions from which further instructions or actions are derived. Even starting up a computer ("booting up") reflects this bootstrapping basis. Bootstrapping is the answer to the classic chicken-or-egg dilemma by embedding a starting set of instructions that provides the premise at start up [1]. The embedded operand for simple addition, for example, is the basis for building up more complete mathematical operations. So, what is the grain of sand at the core of the semantic Web that enables it to bootstrap meaning? We start with the basic semantics and "instructions" in the core RDF, RDFS and OWL languages. These are very much akin to the basic BIOS instructions for computer boot up or the instruc…
encoded: Wikipedia + UMBEL + Friends May Offer One Approach In the first part of this series we argued for the importance of reference structures to provide the structures and vocabularies to guide interoperability on the semantic Web. The argument was made that these reference structures are akin to human languages, requiring a sufficient richness and terminology to enable nuanced and meaningful communications of data across the Web and within the context of their applicable domains. While the idea of such reference structures is great — and perhaps even intuitive when likened to human languages — the question is begged as to what is the basis for such structures? Just as in human languages we have dictionaries, thesauri, grammar and style books or encyclopedia, what are the analogous reference sources for the semantic Web? In this piece, we tackle these questions from the perspective of the entire Web. Similar challenges and approaches occur, of course, for virtually every domain and specific community. But, by focusing on the entirety of the Web, perhaps we can discern the grain of sand at the center of the pearl. Bootstrapping the Semantic Web The idea of bootstrapping is common in computers, compilers or programming. Every computer action needs to start from a basic set of instructions from which further instructions or actions are derived. Even starting up a computer (“booting up”) reflects this bootstrapping basis. Bootstrapping is the answer to the classic chicken-or-egg dilemma by embedding a starting set of instructions that provides the premise at start up [1]. The embedded operand for simple addition, for example, is the basis for building up more complete mathematical operations. So, what is the grain of sand at the core of the semantic Web that enables it to bootstrap meaning? We start with the basic semantics and “instructions” in the core RDF, RDFS and OWL languages. These are very much akin to the basic BIOS instructions for computer boot up or the instructi…
topic: Semantic Web
topic: Structured Web
topic: UMBEL
has reply: comment-79858
links to: first part
links to: semantic Web
links to: bootstrapping
links to: chicken-or-egg
links to: [1]
links to: RDF
links to: RDFS
links to: OWL
links to: BIOS
links to: pidgin
links to: DC
links to: FOAF
links to: SKOS
links to: SIOC
links to: BIBO
links to: DBpedia
links to: skew lines
links to: gold standards
links to: metric system
links to: OED
links to: [2]
links to: Wikipedia
links to: 3.5 million English articles
links to: more than 250 language versions
links to: SWEETpedia
links to: [5]
links to: Mining Meaning from Wikipedia
links to: [6]
links to: Intelligent Wikipedia
links to: [7]
links to: Freebase
links to: Univ of Washington
links to: SIGWP
links to: UMBEL
links to: WikiNet
links to: HITS
links to: Wikipedia Miner
links to: Univ of Waikato
links to: Wikitology
links to: Ebiquity Group
links to: YAGO
links to: infoboxes
links to: Iowa City
links to: [8]
links to: [9]
links to: Stub
links to: Message Boxes
links to: Multiple Issues
links to: [13]
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links to: [9
links to: [11]
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links to: Linked Open Data
links to: [20]
links to: WordNet
links to: synsets
links to: semantic
links to: synonym
links to: dictionary
links to: thesaurus
links to: text analysis

Mike Bergman
type: User

Mike Bergman
type: Person

first part
label: Part I

[9]
label: [9

10]

DBpedia
label: DBpedia.org

text analysis
label: natural language processing

artificial intelligence

[21]

[22]

word sense disambiguation

[23]

[24]

[25]

UMBEL

[26]

Cyc

[27]

[28]

LCSH

SUMO

DOLCE

BFO

PROTON

[29]

Dewey Decimal Classification

UDC

virtuous circle

Part II

Machine code

opcode

operand

addressing mode

Analyzing and Accessing Wikipedia as a Lexical Semantic Resource

technical report

inter-language links

semantic Web

Annex H

UMBEL Specifications
label: Specifications

Category:English cricketers of 1890 to 1918

listing

vocabulary listing
label: Vocabulary

Wikipedia

DBpedia

GeoNames

Annexes A – H

RefConcepts

OpenCyc

Web site

browser