On Real Semantic Web and Language

I am in China :-) and I am really happy to be back here. At the moment I am in Hangzhou which is where I used to live.

The other day I posted about language and how natural language systems would be gould for Semantic Web and then today I cam upon a Google tech talk that details the matter quite well.



Have a look if you have some spair time. I am about 20 minuts in so far and though it is not completely thrilling the speaker has made some interesting points.

Sorry about spelling I am using an internet cafe in which pages are not loading perfectly and spell checkers are not working.

China is so much fun.

Language for Computers not People

A post about the UNIX programer who killed his wife drove me to consider the notion of syntax heavy languages being used to avoid the large problems associated with the semantic web. I am not really sure what this would entail but I guess it is really something like the kind of pattern language issue that I was thinking about for my graduate project at RMIT.

What makes what we say and think so hard to understand (for computers at least) apart from what we use to say it?

Is it possible to make design decisions for a language at this point and have a substantial enough effect on syntax and parsing to achieve the goal of natively supporting direct communication with computers? 

Just on the matters of designed language, in Korea they use a really really awesome alphabet called Hangul. It is highly optimised for both high speed reading and pure graphical logic. It uses simple letters that build things like syllables that become visually compressed into a character without reducing the identify-ability of the individual letters. The system was designed rather recently, 1443, with the intention of creating a better system for dealing with complex sound based languages.