James Farrugia and
Max Egenhofer Special Track on Semantic Web at FLAIRS 2002, pp. 408-412, May 2002.
Abstract
We use an example from information retrieval to describe semantics on the Web, which can be presented in different
ways and carried by different bearers of the information retrieval process. We describe four presentations of
semantics: natural language with minimal markup, simple metadata, basic data models, and logical semantics. Each
presentation of semantics can be borne by human users, search interfaces, documents, or search systems. We show
that different combinations of presentations and bearers lie on a semantic continuum that varies according to the expressiveness and arbitrariness of meanings that are shared and processed during information retrieval.
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James Farrugia and
Max Egenhofer