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A more intelligent way to search. This tool uses natural language processing to allow you to more accurately and flexibly search wikipedia. It seems that they took wikipedia as an example website application they could use to test their ideas. It is fun to use and very handy.

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Semantic search – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">Semantic search – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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seeks to improve by understanding searcher intent and the contextual meaning of terms as they appear in the searchable dataspace, whether on the Web or within a closed system, to generate more relevant results. lists “11 approaches that join semantics to search”[1], and Hildebrand et al. [2] provide an overview that lists and identifies other uses of semantics in the .

Guha et al.[3] distinguish two major forms of search: Navigational and Research. In , the user is using the as a to navigate to a particular intended document. Semantic Search is not applicable to navigational searches. In Research Search, the user provides the with a phrase which is intended to denote an object about which the user is trying to gather/research information. There is no particular document which the user knows about that s/he is trying to get to. Rather, the user is trying to locate a number of documents which together will give him/her the information s/he is trying to find. Semantic Search lends itself well here.

Rather than using ranking algorithms such as ‘s to predict relevancy, Semantic Search uses semantics, or the science of meaning in language, to produce highly relevant . In most cases, the goal is to deliver the information queried by a user rather than have a user sort through a list of loosely related keyword results.

Other authors primarily regard as a set of techniques for retrieving knowledge from richly structured data sources like ontologies as found on the Semantic Web [4]. Such technologies enable the formal articulation of domain knowledge at a high level of expressiveness and could enable the user to specify his intent in more detail at query time.

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In order to understand what a user is searching for, word sense disambiguation must occur. When a term is ambiguous, meaning it can have several meanings (for example, if one considers the lemmabark“, which can be understood as “the sound of a dog,” “the skin of a tree,” or “a three-masted sailing ship”), the disambiguation process is started, thanks to which the most probable meaning is chosen from all those possible.

Such processes make use of other information present in a semantic analysis system and takes into account the meanings of other words present in the sentence and in the rest of the text. The determination of every meaning, in substance, influences the disambiguation of the others, until a situation of maximum plausibility and coherence is reached for the sentence. All the fundamental information for the disambiguation process, that is, all the knowledge used by the system, is represented in the form of a , organized on a conceptual basis.

In a structure of this type, every lexical concept coincides therefore with a node and is linked to others by specific semantic relationships in a hierarchical and hereditary structure. In this way, each concept is enriched with the characteristics and meaning of the nearby nodes.

Every node of the network (called Synset) groups a set of synonyms which represent the same lexical concept (called Synsets) and can contain:

  • single lemmata (‘seat’, ‘vacation’; ‘work’, ‘quick’; ‘quickly’, ‘more’, etc.)
  • compounds (‘non-stop’, ‘abat-jour’, ”)
  • collocations (‘credit card’, ‘university degree’, ‘treasury stock’, ‘go forward’, etc.).

The semantic relationships (links), which identify the semantic relationships between the synsets, are the order principals for the organization of the concepts.

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[edit] References

Several scientific events cover the topic of explicitly, such as the Semantic Search 2008 Workshop at ESWC’08 and the Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval at ECIR’08.

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 : (/  · Notation 3  · Turtle  · N-Triples)  · SPARQL  · URI  ·  ·

Schemas, Ontologies & Rules : RDFS  · OWL  · Rule Interchange Format  · Semantic

Semantic Annotation : RDFa  · eRDF  · GRDDL  · Microformats

Common Vocabularies : FOAF  · SIOC  · >Dublin  · SKOS

Others: Plain Old Semantic

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Semantic Search offers more intelligent searching of the web. This is great for research or finding what is out on the web when you don’t already know what you want or are seeking. This is the web 3.0, the semantic web about which I have been writing recently. Semantics deals with the science of meaning in language. As a writer, poet and technology person, I find this very fascinating.
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A short Tutorial on Semantic Web">A short Tutorial on Semantic Web

A very useful video on the semantic web… What is the semantic web? Web 3.0? Enabling humans and machines to better communicate. Most of the web and knowledge out there is not meaningful in itself. A computer cannot understand what is on a web page. The semantic web seeks to create a language that will allow computers and software to understand the data that is represented, stored and displayed, or communicated. This is a way of giving meaning to the data.

Currently websites are displayed with HTML. This describes how to present the information, knowledge or data on the web. It doesn’t however define or describe what the data represents. For example, if I put up a web page that represents my resume. In typical HTML, I have tags that describe how to display the information. In the semantic web, using XML tags, I’ll be able to represent or describe the fact that the data represents a resume, my resume, about me. The challenge is to create a vocabulary, an ontology that will allow different agents, that is different computer systems (hardware and software) to communicate and understand this vocabulary. Think of the challenge of an English speaking person looking at a resume written in an Asian, eastern language, say Chinese.

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Social network for people of creative professions.">Social network for people of creative professions.

Check out this website I found at interviewdirectory.info

This looks like an interesting way to share one’s ideas and knowledge in a variety of areas. I like this. Check it out.

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I’m the June Editor’s Pick Poet on “The Horror Zine.” Check it out! Four of my poems are here.

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Featured Website Project: Word Salad Online: Part 1">Featured Website Project: Word Salad Online: Part 1

I wanted to highlight and describe the things I’ve done with Word Salad Online, over the years, especially most recently. In my previous posting here, I mention that I recently installed and setup the Community Builder software which is an extension for Joomla – the software that is used to create Word Salad Online. Joomla is a Content Management System, a dynamic, database-driven application. We contrast that with static websites. In a static website, which is how I did websites years ago, I’d have to recreate Word Salad with each issue that we publish. I’d have to create a new website, 4 times per year, because we publish 4 times per year. Sure, it might look very similar in design but each issue is an entirely new website creation and publication.

With Joomla, I created one website years ago. The content, the articles, the poems, the images, everything, is stored in a database (actually a reference to the image is stored in the database). In a static website, it’s easy to lose content, or lose track of where it is. It is rather cumbersome to have 4 different websites with images and other design elements for each publication that comes out – again, this happens 4 times per year. Joomla makes this so much easier. The poems, the images, the design elements, are kept in one place, in one location. The software organizes this complexity quite well. When we come out with a new edition of the magazine, we just change the menu to display the links to the new set of poems that are part of the new edition, as it is released.

The overall look and feel, of the site in Joomla is controlled by Templates. This helps to create a very consistent look to the entire site. In the next article/posting, I’ll talk about how the templates are created and then move on to talk about Community Builder software.

Social Media Marketing | Social Networking | Strategy Tutorial | Website Traffic Secrets">Social Media Marketing | Social Networking | Strategy Tutorial | Website Traffic Secrets

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The course consists of eight different networking sites which has totally different marketing strategy from each other.

After completing the course, it will become very easy for you to understand marketing strategy of any other networking site.

This course do not follow any shortcuts or spamming technique to generate traffic but it demonstrate the correct procedure of using Networking sites in the way it has to be used.

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I found this free tutorial to be very useful for folks that want to learn to use LinkedIn.com – the social networking site for professions – to market themselves, their business or their organization.
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Word Salad's Community Website">Word Salad's Community Website

I just installed and setup Community Builder on Word Salad. This tool allows our members to connect with one another.  Community Builder is software, and it is an extension to the Joomla software that is used to create Word Salad Online. In a later posting, I will describe what all this means – what Joomla is and why I chose that.
I’d like to invite people to join the site and become a part of the community.   If you are a poet or writer, or if you just appreciate such things, you are invited to join.  If you have been published on Word Salad you may already have an account.  You can then create a profile, with a bio statement and then upload a photo, you can add, if appropriate, where you have been published, any blogs that you have, and etc..

To do this, go to http://WordSaladPoetryMagazine.com/ and click on Login from the Member menu, or if you haven’t joined yet, then please register. After you confirm your email, if you are registering, you can then login. At this point you can go to Member Profile Details – Go here to setup your profile.

You can then connect with other members, most of whom, are poets and many may have been published at some point in the past.
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Bruce Whealton, co-editor, publisher, web designer/developer.

Artisteer – joomla template generator and wordpress theme generator">Artisteer – joomla template generator and wordpress theme generator

Such a great tool for web designers! I’ve used this to create nice templates for blogs and websites.

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July 18th, 2010 | Author: Bruce Whealton | Edit

I should talk about an update to my blog also. I’ll do that in my next post.

The Angel of Death – Poetry by Jean Jones

I just published a pdf version of this collection with three recent additions by Jean Jones to his long running collection of poetry. Jean had asked me over a week ago to do
this. Well, it’s finally available on Word Salad. You can find it by going here and then selecting it from the list. The heading to this paragraph has a link that goes right to the publication. It is in pdf format for printing or download. Perhaps there will be a second edition with more poems and maybe some kind of additional material.

A New Look for Word Salad

Perhaps we even need a new name for the site… not really. The site is named Word Salad. We have a quarterly poetry publication called Word Salad Poetry Magazine (we also have a quarterly of Haiku called Haiku Ramblings). You will also find a few back issues of Word Salad Poetry Magazine in our archives. Actually, we only have the poetry from the past issues available. Much of the rest of the content was duplicated with each edition. Word Salad as a website is larger now. We publish much more on the website. As noted in the above paragraph, we have numerous poetry collections available on the site.

In addition, I see this as becoming a community site with various resources. I have installed a wiki, similar to what you see on wikipedia.org. I called it Wordopedia for Word Salad’s wiki. We just articles to be written for this. I’ve installed “Community Builder” to make the site into a “Community” website. Users can enter a fuller profile and many more features will be available for interacting with others. More on this later.

I have tried to include many of the exciting features of today’s Social Web. As a web designer/developer professional working today, I have to take advantage of all these resources and it only seems natural to share what I am learning.
For social image file sharing (sharing pictures) I use flickr.com and use that to host images that are displayed on Word Salad. My home page, as it were, on flickr is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brucewhealton/ and my profile on flickr is here: http://www.flickr.com/people/brucewhealton/.
For social bookmarking I use del.icio.us and my page on delicious is here: http://del.icio.us/brucewhealton

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July 12th, 2010 | Author: Bruce Whealton | Edit

Furthering my eduction in developing facebook applications as a feature offering by my company, Future Wave Designs… This will be important for any website and any client of my company.

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