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- Presents case studies and experiments including the pioneering study of tagging systems
- Covers performance of commercial search engines
- Illustrates that the substance matter of this book has a robustly empirical side with an impact on industry
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Semantic Web and Beyond (ADSW, volume 13)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web provides a unique introduction to identity and reference theories of the World Wide Web, through the academic lens of philosophy of language and data-driven statistical models. The Semantic Web is a natural evolution of the Web, and this book covers the URL-based Web architecture and Semantic Web in detail. It has a robust empirical side which has an impact on industry.
Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web discusses how the largest problem facing the Semantic Web is the problem of identity and reference, and how these are the results of a larger general theory of meaning. This book hypothesizes that statistical semantics can solve these problems, illustrated by case studies ranging from a pioneering study of tagging systems to using the Semantic Web to boost the results of commercial search engines.
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“Web practitioners working with search engines … or simply curious fellows who are interested not only in a practical description of things, but also like to think out of the box, will find the book valuable. … definitely recommend this book to all of my doctoral students, as it stimulates deep thinking on the web qua web as a subject matter. It should be of particular interest also to students and researchers in the new field of web science.” (M. Bielikova, Computing Reviews, October, 2014)Authors and Affiliations
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computer Science and Artificial Intellig Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Harry Halpin
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Semantics
Book Subtitle: The Search for Meaning on the Web
Authors: Harry Halpin
Series Title: Semantic Web and Beyond
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1885-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-1884-9Published: 01 August 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8946-8Published: 19 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-1885-6Published: 01 August 2012
Series ISSN: 1559-7474
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 220
Topics: Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Information Storage and Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence, History of Computing, Logics and Meanings of Programs, Natural Language Processing (NLP)