There are a number of new formats and languages that have sprung up with the semantic web in the last few years. LISP (LISt Processing) however is not a new language by any means but seems to have found a new role in the new web. I have and sometimes do program in Lisp because a [...][...]
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Inbenta announces New “Semantic Site Search” engine
Just a heads-up: “Inbenta announces the launch of “Semantic Site Search”, a new service (SaaS-based) that provides search to any website within the cloud computing. After four years of development (project codename: voldemort), this search service includes Semantic Search capabilit[...]
Rant: Which are you really?
There is a lot of vocab misuse around the web, and especially in webdesign, online marketing and other areas. This does not usually disturb me in any way and I couldn’t care less, but recently it has caused me hassle, so I am having a big rant about it. Some may take it personally, but [...][...]
What is semantic search?
There’s been a lot of talk recently about “semantic search”, and is also refered to as the “readwrite web”. Powerset, Cognition, Ask, Hakia, and many others are “semantic search engines”. It’s not a new concept, research has been available in acade[...]
Lemur toolkit
The Lemur toolkit is a natural language processing and information retrieval toolkit. Having a go on this is a nice way of seeing some IR technologies functioning first hand, rather than guessing on a major SE to observe the phenomenon. It supports all major languages, performs stemming using Porter[...]

