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Google is dropping the ball here, as they stand to benefit the most from a single central ontology for the web. It does illustrate that this approach doesn't wo
by wrnr 6y ago
Google is dropping the ball here, as they stand to benefit the most from a single central ontology for the web. It does illustrate that this approach doesn't work if you are looking to innovate quickly and not be dependent on the goodwill of a single institution that doesn't even know who you are.
Maybe we can finally stop using ontologies for the semantic web and start solving the hard problem of language pragmatics.
- zo1 6y agoA single ontology would level the search/structured-web playing field. Right now Google has a huge advantage because they leverage their ML/NN knowledge and funding to "extract" structured information from the unstructured web. New players just can't do that without a lot of time & funding, which wouldn't be the case if a lot of the data was in a structured and agreed-upon format/schema.
- zozbot234 6y agoML/NN methods and knowledge only become more effective and powerful if accurate input data is available. You can not just "extract" information, but try to perform complex queries, inference etc. over structured data.