Web-scale Reasoning
Alan Dix, Janet Finlay · 2025
We use AI and big-data enabled algorithms every time we do a web search, use social media or go to an internet shopping site. However, the vast volume of material available on the web can also be used as a resource for AI. We have seen some of this, especially the machine learning potential in Chapter 8. In this chapter we will see how the idea of the Semantic Web allows the web to be a locus for machine reasoning, both from special machine-readable data and from human-readable web pages with additional markup. We will also see how various forms of external semantics and text mining can be used to extract information from web pages and social media to allow them to better support our own day-to-day interactions and also to make them available as a source of large-scale information.