Semantic Web and Natural Language

March 26, 2013 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Semantic Web and Natural Language

Natural language user interfaces are becoming more and more popular. Creations like Siri promise to improve every facet of our lives from emergency situations to shopping. The semantic web has birthed this phenomenally successful technology. Through the use of standardized tags and formats, the semantic web builds a framework where content on the web has machine-understandable meaning. This takes it many steps past simply being searchable by keyword.

This interesting topic was inspired by GiaOM’s article, “.” The word semantic is defined as having meaning, so the semantic web has content with meaning, i.e. tags, metadata, etc. Semantic metadata makes findability possible – the key to sharing content. Sharing does make the world go around, and that’s not just in kindergarten.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.