Social Semantics
Subtitle: The Search for Meaning on the Web
By: by Harry Halpin
Contributors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: Semantic Web and Beyond, Computing for Human Experience -- 13
Publisher: Springer US; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781461418856
Subjects: Information organization; Information storage and retrieval systems; Text processing (Computer science); Information retrieval; Logic design; Logics and Meanings of Programs; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Computer science; Document Preparation and Text Processing; History of Computing; Artificial intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
Description: Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web provides a unique introduction to identity and reference theories of the World Wide Web, through the academic lens of philosophy of language and data-driven statistical models. The Semantic Web is a natural evolution of the Web, and this book covers the URL-based Web architecture and Semantic Web in detail. It has a robust empirical side which has an impact on industry. Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web discusses how the largest problem facing the Semantic Web is the problem of identity and reference, and how these are the results of a larger general theory of meaning. This book hypothesizes that statistical semantics can solve these problems, illustrated by case studies ranging from a pioneering study of tagging systems to using the Semantic Web to boost the results of commercial search engines. Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web targets practitioners working in the related fields of the semantic web, search engines, information retrieval, philosophers of language and more. Advanced-level students and researchers focusing on computer science will also find this book valuable as a secondary text or reference book.