Semantic Social Networks
by Frank
Yet another social networking site that goes semantic: https://www.researchgate.net/ is a narrow-band social networking site (targetted at scientists), that is now including semantic technology for powering their search and matchmaking algorithms. See also the upcoming AAAI Spring Symposium.
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January 19th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Indeed, there seems to be plenty of potential for semantic applications. Still, our analysis of the field unveeled that the interesting staff is most often a matter of applying machine learning (or more general, statistical) methods on top of graphs with little semantics. This is still called semanitcs, but it is not realted to the type of reasoning in LARKC. While, one can add this and that by some symbolic reasoning on top of the semantics of this graphs the effort/benefit ratio is questionable.
Sorry for the pessimistic view. There is potential for synergy, but it seems to me more as a topic for a new integrated project than as an straightforward application of LARKC technology
February 15th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
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