True knowledge in the semantic network

Rennee Blodgett writes about her recent visit to Cambridge and interviews the CEO of True Knowledge

True Knowledge improves the experience of finding known facts on the Web. Think: semantic search. Their first service–the True Knowledge Answer Engine–is a major step toward fulfilling a longstanding Internet industry goal: providing consumers with instant answers to complex questions, with a single click.

Picking up where search engines leave off, True Knowledge’s Answer Engine automates the laborious, time-consuming work that users generally must do to get final answers to their questions.

True Knowledge does this by structuring data in a way that enables computers to work and think like humans do, drawing inferences and conclusions when needed to find the information that’s requested.

Another key differentiator: True Knowledge is tapping subject matter experts around the globe to build its information repository–bringing together the benefits of machine-driven automation and people-driven intelligence.

In the green shoots of the semantic web I quoted John Battelle

But perfect search will require more than ubiquity, clickstreams, and personalisation. The vast corpus of information now available to us is often meaningless unless it is somehow tagged – identified in such a way that search engines can best make sense of it and serve it up to u.

The web becomes intelligent.
Entity-attribute-value model
Linked Data Web
List of emerging technologies
Semantic advertising
Semantic Sensor Web
Semantic Web Services
Social Semantic Web
Swoogle
Website Parse Template
Wikipedia:Semantic MediaWiki

Nova Spivack in a presentation in 2007 described some the underlying key trends to the Semantic web

Ubiquitous Connectivity

1. Broadband adoption
2. Mobile Internet access
3. Mobile devices

Network Computing

1. Software-as-a-service business models
2. Web services interoperability
3. Distributed computing (P2P, grid computing, hosted “cloud computing” server farms such as Amazon S3)

Open Technologies

1. Open API’s and protocols
2. Open data formats
3. Open-source software platforms
4. Open data (Creative Commons, Open Data License, etc.)

Open Identity

1. Open identity (OpenID)
2. Open reputation
3. Portable identity and personal data (for example, the ability to port your user account and search history from one service to another)

The Intelligent Web

1. Semantic Web technologies (RDF, OWL, SWRL, SPARQL, Semantic application platforms, and statement-based datastores such as triplestores, tuplestores and associative databases)
2. Distributed databases — or what I call “The World Wide Database” (wide-area distributed database interoperability enabled by Semantic Web technologies)
3. Intelligent applications (natural language processing, machine learning, machine reasoning, autonomous agents)

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