Issue No.05 - September/October (2005 vol.9)
pp: 96, c3
Charles Petrie , Stanford University
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIC.2005.107
Many researchers, mostly academics, are devoting great resources to developing the Semantic Web and the corresponding semantic Web services. The various proposed technology suites are usually based on top-down ontologies that are intended primarily to solve the problem of semantic unification: determining whether two given terms share a common meaning. Yet, the only way to know if we've done it correctly is to test whether the applications associated with the terms interoperate successfully--a notion I call pragmatic semantic unification.
Semantic Web, Semantic Web services
Charles Petrie, "Pragmatic Semantic Unification", IEEE Internet Computing, vol.9, no. 5, pp. 96, c3, September/October 2005, doi:10.1109/MIC.2005.107