Let Semantics Bring Sophistication to Your Applications
Leverage semantic technology and the W3C's Web Ontology Language standard to spice up a query-based application.
by Rod Coffin
May 17, 2007
ave you ever been frustrated by the lack of sophistication in some of today's search applications? I certainly have been. For example, I was recently evaluating a tool, called Green Pepper, for automating testable requirements; when I googled the phrase "Green Pepper," I received a bunch of results that were unrelated to the type of information I was looking for. I was interested in the Green Pepper software tool, not the vegetable. Wouldn't it be nice if the search engine could understand the meaning of my query or, if not, at least assist me in disambiguating the possible interpretations to provide more meaningful results?
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ave you ever been frustrated by the lack of sophistication in some of today's search applications? I certainly have been. For example, I was recently evaluating a tool, called Green Pepper, for automating testable requirements; when I googled the phrase "Green Pepper," I received a bunch of results that were unrelated to the type of information I was looking for. I was interested in the Green Pepper software tool, not the vegetable. Wouldn't it be nice if the search engine could understand the meaning of my query or, if not, at least assist me in disambiguating the possible interpretations to provide more meaningful results?
