Comments on: Google VP on semantic search and the Semantic Web

By: Jay Myers

Jay Myers — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:09:43 +0000

I’m confused. Are microformats and RDFa considered “manual”? Some of these comments seem opposite of initiatives like Google Rich Snippets…

By: Shyam Kapur

Shyam Kapur — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:13:54 +0000

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By: Tim Finin

Tim Finin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:08:57 +0000

Manual markup is a red herring, imho. But I agree that we need a data-driven component and that machine learning techniques offer the best approach to date.

By: Ben Toth

Ben Toth — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:18:04 +0000

Well spotted. Mayer is making a couple of points, which are related. First language changes (moving faster than RDF can cope with, linguistic change is real-time) and second manual mark-up doesn’t scale. It seems important to have some sort of response to these points.