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ICSC 2008

ICSC 2008

Second IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
Santa Clara, CA, USA - August 4-7, 2008
Semantics on the Web: How do we get there?

by Raghu Ramakrishnan, Chief Scientist for Audience,
Yahoo! Research

It is becoming increasingly clear that the next generation of web search and advertising will rely on a deeper understanding of user intent and task modeling, and a correspondingly richer interpretation of content on the web. How we get there, in particular, how we understand web content in richer terms than bags of words and links, is a wide open and fascinating question. I will discuss some of the options here, and look closely at the role that information extraction can play.

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