Can the semantic Web make journalism smarter?
Jun
24
Thu
7:00 PM
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1436 Howard (at 10th) in San Francisco
San Francisco, CA 94103
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50 people attended.
Who organized?
Burt Herman
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50 attendees
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“ Wonderful speakers from OpenCalais, AllVoices and ReadItLater. Really enjoyed hearing about the foundational work that OpenCalais is doing to build businesses like the latter two. Excellent discussion as always. ” -
“ Interesting people and ideas. Good initiative from Xavier and Burt. ” -
“ This was a great Meetup -- Really thought-provoking how the work of huge numbers of programmers can eventually be helpful in even the tiniest and seemingly most isolated nooks on the web. I immediately ran several of my pages through OpenCalais. Not magic. But very promising, and the relevancy bars are better than the builtin relations in our Plone site (which is slightly better than a monkey choosing for us). ” -
“ Cool speakers, but perhaps too many. A panel rather that presentations might have been more fun. ” -
“ Great speakers, excellent presentations, an interesting and knowledgeable crowd. Chairs were a bit uncomfortable. ” -
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Thanks Kate! That was good to know before going into last night's event. What a cool meetup it was :)
Just talked to someone about that (I'm at SemTech, Semantic Web Conference). There are a fair number of Semantic Web people who came from NLP backgrounds, but apparently there was a big split back in the 80s. Don't know much about what happened, but my guess is that a lot of the Semantic Web is more about top-down representation (figure out some taxonomies for people to use for representing info) whereas NLP is increasingly about using statistics to find patterns over a lot of noisy data.
Can someone tell me if there is a significant difference between the idea of the semantic web (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
) and natural language processing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing
)? Just something I'd like to know before coming. Thanks!
Me too!
Excited to meet everyone.
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