Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Mon Oct 3 03:09:23 CDT 2011
Welcome to the realm of fuzzy logic and neural networks, where suddenly you realize just how much more powerful the human brain is compared to a computer and the only way for computers to compare is by having excellent statistical/probabilistic algorithms. Unfortunately, computers are quite poor at comprehending context, because they know nothing about human nature. My understanding of the semantic web, however, is not so much about the web understanding a context so much as the web developing a meta-layer (one not relevant to humans but more for computers), which can easily combine and associate information that computers would otherwise not know was related. A means for computers to talk to each other to build "context". Blogs do this by means of tags and such, but it is still relatively immature. Is this somewhat what you are referring to or are you implying something else - something more complex in nature? - Hans On 2011-10-03, at 12:34 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote: > I get your point. Could be "Little Red Riding Hood" not "Linux". But that is > precisely the conundrum, the meaning of "meaning". That is one tough nut to > crack, and I do not pretend to have any solutions; I'm still working on it! > And I thought databases were tough. This is a much more difficult problem > LOL. > > A. > > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:28 AM, Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote: > >> Hi Arthur >> >> I can help you. >> >> Regarding searching for information, for something to have a Meaning means >> that it is relevant to the context - as defined by the user. >> If a child searches for "red hat" it is probably not related to Linux. But >> it could be, thus initially the user must be granted a method to define the >> context. The machine cannot make that decision for the user. >> >> /gustav >> >> > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com