Semantic Search: The Myth and Reality - ReadWriteWeb- Halloween News
The first confusion in the space comes from the fact that semantic search is being positioned as the answer to all possible problems - from modern search, currently dominated by Google, to problems that are computationally impossible. Google correctly answers the question about Leonardo Da Vinci’s birthday leaving no opportunities to improve the search by understanding the nouns and the verbs that user typed in. Way too often we forget that semantic technologies are here to help us represent relational data spread over the entire web - so it should be no surprise to us that it is relational queries that semantic search engines would excel at. The difference is that Hakia is using (likely similar) technology to query over the entire web, while Powerset has (probably shrewdly) chosen to restrict the search to Wikipedia. What is true, however is that semantic search is going to be big and it is going to help us answer questions that we simply cannot answer today - complex, inferencing queries asked over the entire web as if it was a database. To avoid the shortfall of numeric-based search in todays environment, one can use a guided search (interactive search), ie, start with a narrow bag of words, then the engine will refine the search & narrow it down to the target the user wants. More Halloween News
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