reverse engineering the semantic web
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Overview
• Semantic Web: Why and What
• An Idea
• Demo
WWW Semantic Web
For humans For machines
Navigation + Layout language Knowledge representation language
HTML, PDF, Flash, RDF, OWL, RSS, microformats, OpenGraph
Semantic Web
IBM WATSON
Open Graph API
An Idea: Bottom-Up Approach
How would you write a converter from the web to
the semantic web?
Visually reverse-engineer the “PHP” layer
Next Steps
• NLP
• Cool Applications
– Automatically generated summaries when sharing links
– Automatically format sites for mobile/tablet
– Crawl government contract bids
– Monitor privacy policies
– Watch politician platform statements
