"Semantic Markup Languages: A Gentle Introduction"

11/9/2001: [time not recorded]
[location not recorded]

Abstract: The compelling vision of the Semantic Web (http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic.html, http://www.sciam.com/2001/0501issue/0501berners-lee.html), has motivated a significant amount of research on semantic markup languages. From the W3C, from funding agencies in Europe and the US, and from various research communities, a number of proposals for the underlying representations of the Semantic Web have been put forward. It is likely that many of these languages will be adopted, extended, or dropped (except for some key ideas) by the wider community of developers and users of these languages much as we saw happen to network design and protocols and in the early days of the Internet. This talk will review some of these languages in a tutorial style, and will reflect on their contributions towards the realization of the Semantic Web. This work is in collaboration with Varun Ratnakar.

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