The Semantic web … the next best thing!
November 4th, 2008 by patricia.murdoch in Internet sources
The semantic web is variously described as an extension of and/or the future of the world wide web. Tim Berners-Lee (and others) published an article in Scientific American (May 2001) in which he described the web of the future as one where computers would be able to manipulate web content to find meaningful and relevant results for the end user.
Several semantic search engines are under development.
Using sophisticated semantic web searching technology – patent pending – Sensebot searches Google, Yahoo or MSN and generates a summary of the top result pages. Its technology includes “text mining” of documents to identify concepts, weighting of concepts depending on closeness to query and then the construction (or “summarization”) of content according to the Sensebot algorithm. This gives the end user an overview of a topic, event or phenomenon rather than just a list of relevant weblinks.
Try out Sensbot at the link below. What do you think will be the impact on education?
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One Response to “The Semantic web … the next best thing!”
By gail simmons on Nov 5, 2008
I think this is a very interesting search engine. I have just completed a search on Obama, using Sensebot and learned a lot of new information about the new American President.