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Title:

Go Big or Go Home: Scaling Semantic Apps

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Organizer:
Toby Jungen, swingly.com
Description:
While the Semantic Web has generated excitement, its usefulness is still restricted to a few areas. Efforts to expand the coverage of semantic apps have revealed limitations in performance and technology. We'll discuss how people are addressing these problems and when semantic apps will provide real value for real people.
Questions
Answered:
  1. What value is in semantic technology and semantic data?
  2. How much semantic data does the semantic web need to be useful?
  3. How do we quickly and efficiently scale up the amount of available data?
  4. What technical and political challenges are in the way of scaling data?
  5. Which standards should be imposed on semantic data sets?
  6. Who should be responsible for maintaining standards and sheparding data sets?
  7. How do we demonstrate value of semantic data, how to we get market adoption?
  8. How can we make sense of and filter the data down to the relevant pieces?
  9. What challenges may be looming ahead (e.g. conflicting data, data that changes over time)?
  10. What effects do open semantic data sets have on search, publishing, and dissemination of content?
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
Accessibility / Web Standards, Information Architecture, New Technology / Next Generation, Search, User Generated Content
Type:
Panel
Event:
Interactive 2010
David Gallagher
on 2/9/09
These are all good questions. I'd like to hear more about who will be on the panel - and about who you are. Will check back.
Jerry Lundegaard
on 3/9/09
Swingly's a great new semantic search engine out of Dallas, Texas -- they're looking to bring real question answering to the web of text. Good stuff!
Toby Jungen
on 3/9/09
We're still in the process of finalizing who will be on the panel, so I will update when we have the details.

On our background: We're a small natural-language startup based in Dallas aiming at taking semantic technologies (NLP, SemanticWeb) to the web. We think current search technology only scratches the surface of what's possible, so we're out to explore new ways of thinking about search and discovery.
Andy Hickl
on 3/9/09
Yup, we're out of Big D. You can sign up for our initial alpha at http://www.swingly.com.

We're big believers in the power of natural language processing -- and how it can be used to provide the knowledge necessary to go out and find the specific information users are looking for. And by NLP, I mean *NLP*: Swingly extracts more than 2000 different types of names and more than 500 different types of attributes, events, and relationships. That's a far cry from what other providers are offering these days.

We think that that commitment to large-scale, wide coverage NLP is what's necessary to extend semantic web-style resources to *all* of the web.

Charles Gillespie
on 3/9/09
Great topic and timely -- the semantics of the web have been on the cusp for a long time, and with swingly and others (like our own Semantica), it's finally returning on its promise.
Games Online
on 3/11/09
You can bet this one will be outstanding.
blu ray ripper
on 13/11/09
So looking forward to this..
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