Natural Language Processing as a Foundation of the Semantic Web

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Natural Language Processing as a Foundation of the Semantic Web

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O knihe

Natural Language Processing as a Foundation of the Semantic Web argues that Natural
Language Processing (NLP) does, and will continue to, underlie the Semantic Web (SW),
including its initial construction from unstructured sources like the World Wide Web, in several
different ways, and whether its advocates realise this or not. Chiefly, it argues, such NLP
activity is the only way up to a defensible notion of meaning at conceptual levels based on
lower level empirical computations over usage. The claim being made is definitely not logicbad,
NLP-good in any simple-minded way, but that the SW will be a fascinating interaction of
these two methodologies, like the WWW (which, as the authors explain, has been a fruitful field
for statistical NLP research) but with deeper content. Only NLP technologies (and chiefly
information extraction) will be able to provide the requisite resource description framework
(RDF) knowledge stores for the SW from existing WWW (unstructured) text databases, and in
the vast quantities needed. There is no alternative at this point, since a wholly or mostly handcrafted SW is also unthinkable, as is a SW built from scratch and without reference to the
WWW. It is also assumed here that, whatever the limitations on current SW representational
power drawn attention to here, the SW will continue to grow in a distributed manner so as to
serve the needs of scientists, even if it is not perfect. The WWW has already shown how an
imperfect artefact can become indispensable.

Natural Language Processing as a Foundation of the Semantic Web will appeal to
researchers, practitioners and anyone with an interest in NLP, the philosophy of language,
cognitive science, the Semantic Web and Web Science generally, as well as providing a
magisterial and controversial overview of the history of artificial intelligence.