Near-Term Prospects for Semantic Technologies
V. Richard Benjamins, John W. Davies, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Peter Mika, Hugo Zaragoza, Mark Greaves, Jose Manuél Gómez-Pérez, Jesús Contreras, John Domingue, Dieter Fensel · IEEE Intelligent Systems · 2008
Tor the past few years, the Semantic Web has been enjoying significant investment, mostly through research but to a lesser extent through start-ups and commercial projects. A major topic of discussion is where we can see those investments' results, so I asked several experts to consider what semantic technology will accomplish in the near future. The experts are from academia, venture capitalist firms, and companies focused on semantic technology, telecommunication, and Web 2.0.