The Permeable Web

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                          A Ubiquitous Permeable
Web requirements for the next generation
semantic internet Hamish CunninghamDepartment
of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
Aberdeen AKT meeting, June 2002
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• A Ubiquitous Permeable Web
• The next generation of the web must be
• ubiquitous semantics for every device, every
  organisation, every individual
• permeable allow contextual data to penetrate
  and persist
• companionable able to engage with us via
  multiple natural modalities.
• This implies cross-disciplinary linkages with
  amongst others
• wearable and ambient computing
• man-machine interface
• 4th generation telecoms.

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• Critical Mass for the Semantic Web
• The SW machine processable, repurposable data
  to compliment hypertext
• But semantics 0.0000000... of the Web
• How to achieve critical mass? Huge scale
  automatic annotation. Requirements
• Huge scale freely available to all UK
  citizens distributed (over a Grid)
  re-purposeable (delivered as Web Services)
• Portability and robustness via simple
  multi-genre, multi-domain, multi-media HLT
  methods ve and ve learning analogs of
  IPSEs for computer-literate users

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Support Infrastructure for Language Engineering

• Analogy with recent history of mens underwear
  also supportive infrastructure
• The bad old days Y-fronts supportive, yes, but
  tended to be too constrictive
• The brave new world boxer shorts still
  supportive, but less constraining
• The purpose of our work (the boxer shorts ideal)
• freedom within a supportive environment

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