Category Archives: Semantic Web

Knowledge Specification and Querying

Posted on July 25, 2019 by

Our colleagues from the Rules and Reasoning community have just reported interesting results. They built a system that achieves 100% accuracy on an extensive test suite of movie-related questions, e.g. “Who appears in a Steven Spielberg directed film?”. Their approach … Continue reading →

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“Rules and Reasoning” Event at W3C Graph Data Workshop

Posted on March 14, 2019 by

This event was held on March 4-6, 2019 in Berlin, Germany.  The following kinds of rules were discussed: Rules for graph knowledge inference Rules for graph data transformation/mapping Rules for graph data validation Rules for RDF shapes Rules for (controlled) natural … Continue reading →

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Tim Berners-Lee: Game On!

Posted on September 29, 2018 by

With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web  Sir Tim Berners-Lee will launch Inrupt, a startup that he has been building, in stealth mode, for the past nine months. Its mission is to turbocharge a broader movement afoot, among … Continue reading →

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Will we see Prolog’s resurgence?

Posted on August 22, 2018 by

Is Prolog the next good idea? Prolog, introduced in 1972, “was a short introduction to open doors to other languages than C, Java, Python or so. In a jungle of hundreds of programming languages, Prolog fits like a glove into the formalism of … Continue reading →

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Knowledge Graphs

Posted on August 21, 2018 by

Knowledge Graphs are becoming increasingly important to support decision and process augmentation based on linked data. “It’s all about things, not strings: A Knowledge Graph represents a knowledge domain. It connects things of different types in a systematic way. Knowledge … Continue reading →

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Smart Snippets: Semantic Web Comes of Age

Posted on August 7, 2018 by

On Aug. 3 Forbes published an article “The Semantic Web Comes of Age” by Kurt Cagle. “Beginning in 2017, both Google and Bing announced that they would be supporting the use of embedded smart snippets in web content. A smart snippet is a … Continue reading →

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NYT Interview with Benjamin Grosof

Posted on June 21, 2018 by

New Your Times published an interview with Benjamin Grosof, a leading AI expert and a frequent presenter at RuleML+RR and DecisionCAMP.  While deep learning comes from the statistical side of AI, the interview brings attention to non-deep learning tools such as Prolog, a programming language … Continue reading →

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Does Real-World Decision Management Need Inference?

Posted on April 9, 2018 by

A set of recent articles by Paul Haley again brings attention to this important question. Paul insists that “It’s time to trade rule technology dating back to the 80’s for state of the art AI” and points that “BRMS are incapable … Continue reading →

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It’s time to trade rule technology for state of the art AI?

Posted on April 3, 2018 by

Five years ago Paul Haley expressed his frustrations with production rule technology (to which he was one of the major contributors) because of its inability to perform deduction. He wrote that rule vendors should stop “dressing up a procedural  language!” … Continue reading →

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Decision Management and Semantic Reasoning

Posted on March 16, 2018 by

“This September DecisionCAMP and RuleML+RR will be co-located again for the third time during the Logic for AI 2018 summit in Luxembourg. These two events represent two different but closely related fields of the knowledge representation movement: Business Rules & Decisions … Continue reading →

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