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A key is a fundamental or central operative of harmony. The connexion of relevance is recognized concordantly.
A quick read of popular technology news and review sites– gives one the impression that the trouble people have with search engines– those called semantic search engines and all other search engines too– is the relevance of the [...]

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Search. I suppose there is no denying that the word “search” ascended to significance in the consciousness of more people since the birth of Information Science than perhaps at any other time in history. This supposition is supported by a recent Pew Foundation internet study stating that:
The percentage of internet users who use [...]

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Peter Mika recently wrote an article about the semantic web and NLP-style semantic search. I should just ignore his claim that there are only two roads to semantic search because he is plainly mistaken on that count. As Peter works for Yahoo, he was mainly discussing data processing with RDF and [...]

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In looking at the comments of the last post The Search for Semantic Search, I see there appears to be some interesting interpretations. Let me explain my motives, address any perceived bias and clarify my position.
Alex Iskold wrote about semantic search that we were asking the wrong questions; that it was essentially the root [...]

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In a recent Read Write Web article that was much more myth than reality, Alex Iskold posits the fact that a semantic search engine must dethrone Google (myth1). Fortunately by the end of his article he concludes that he was mislead into thinking that. I do not think he was misled at [...]

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I would like to address the few questions I received on the three parts 1,2 and 3 of the semantics of interpersonal relations. The first and most obvious questions was:
I don’t get it. What are the semantics?
This question is about the actual semantic rules that I did not state fully or formally in any [...]

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I promised in the last post that I could offer a solution to the disconnect between what search engines locate and what people think is relevant. Now there is nothing wrong with search engines as long as you know what you are looking for and it has a uniquely relevant name or handle. Some [...]

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If “literature” is “the imaginative and creative writing of a language, period or culture” the blogs, new media and web pages of (so-called) social media qualifies as the new literature. One could say that online news, health and finance sites, the “e-zines” and the several hundred million web logs or blogs comprise a growing [...]

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Things do heat up in the summer time and some say there is some competition brewing among Natural Language vendors that are offering search services.
Over at the Conceptualist, Sahar Sarid comments on whether 30 years of research is enough to beat Google. Citing Michael Reisman for MIT Technology, he thinks semantic search is [...]

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How important do you think that it is to recognize when you are about to make an error? If you rate it as pretty important to you, then you will agree that that sort of recognition would be something very meaningful. The very act of distinguishing the error is of perceptual significance [...]

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