2014-01-31 16:48 Amanda Vizedom:
> If we are going raise such broad questions as "Are ontology languages
> relevant for applications on the Web of (Big) Data?" I hope, very, very
> strongly, that we do not think about them as hypothetical or approach
> them as one might in an academic research context.
>
> Rather, I hope that we turn our attention to the fact that there are,
> *right now*, in the world of web applications, big data, and linked
> data, *many* people and projects making use of ontologies, or at least
> information represented in ontology languages and utilizing some
> features of those languages. Talking about the question of relevance
> theoretically seems to me less important than talking about findings in
> the field, especially for the purposes of cross-field exchange for as
> highlighted in the Summit topic and goals. (01)
Very nicely put. Indeed I didn't have in mind to start an academic
discussion, so maybe I should have phrased my question as follows: (02)
* What practical problems involving Big Data on the Web can ontology
languages help to solve? (03)
* How can they help to solve them? (04)
Still, with this in mind … (05)
> Yesterday, we heard from Chris Welty, discussing one such well-known
> example in the big data space: Watson. Chris gave some very interesting
> details about what aspects of ontological knowledge are used in Watson
> and how, and which are not used, and why. (06)
… I didn't want to completely rule out the possible answer that, for
certain classes of problems, ontology languages (and research into tools
and techniques around them), might not be the most helpful solution. (07)
Cheers, (08)
Christoph (09)
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Applied Computer Science @ University of Bonn; Fraunhofer IAIS
http://langec.wordpress.com/about, Skype duke4701 (010)
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