Abstract:The current state of Web technology – the “first generation” or “syntactic” Web – gives rise to well-known, serious problems when trying to accomplish, in a non-trivial way, essential tasks like indexing, searching, extracting, maintaining, and generating information. These tasks would, in fact, require some sort of ‘deep understanding’ of the information dealt with: in a “syntactic” Web context, on the contrary, computers are only used as tools for posting and rendering information by brute force. Faced with … Show more
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