ESSAY #3 for INF5020, AUTUMN 2004

NOTE that this essay counts for 20% of your final grade in this course!

?         DUE: Friday 19th November 2004, before 16:00 hrs.

?         GOAL: Discuss how information may be represented computationally so as to enable semantic querying.

?         Think of an infrastructure like the Semantic Web.

?         Think of a yes/no question as your ?semantic query?. For example: ?Does education improve welfare??

?         Beware: You do not want the ?Semantic Web? to give you volumes of text as an answer (i.e., you do not want keyword search), but a simple yes or no, or a conditional yes and a conditional no (with explanations of under what conditions the answer is a yes or a no).

?         You will need to surf around in Artificial Intelligence (AI) resources, the Semantic Web and Knowledge Representation etc. You may also want to search for information on models of the mind, reasoning etc.

?         TITLE: ?Modeling Information for Semantic Information Retrieval?

?         NOTE that this is not an easy task. If we could do this, we would be a giant step closer to intelligent machines. So just do your best. Discuss at least the shortcomings of existing schemes of representing information.