Semantic Intelligence

8/6/2019 Semantic Intelligence

1/21

RedefiningRedefining

the IT Lexicon:the IT Lexicon:

Semantic IntelligenceSemantic Intelligence

Copyright 2011, Semantech Inc., All Rights Reserved

Presented by Stephen Lahanas

Applied Innovation SeriesApplied Innovation Series


2/21

2Copyright 2011, Semantech Inc.

Web Servers are one thing, Nuclear Reactors are

a bit more dangerous there are systems which

absolutely must not FAIL.

The Future Begins with an idea

Innovation represents the deliberate attempt to

change current reality.

Those who believe that things can be better or can

be done betterhave the motivation to pursue

change Innovation is the roadmap or blueprint forthat change.

The Future consists of thousands of such

blueprints coming together to build a new reality InnovationWorx is dedicated to providing

consistent and actionable Innovation for you both

through our consulting and our presentation series.


3/21


4/21


The Premise

Words help us to describe complex

concepts without quite so much

explanation or research


5/21


Expanding the ITLexicon

The IT arena has produced thousands of new

words to the English language since its inception

and many more acronyms.

When introducing a new term several questions

ought to be kept in mind:

1. Is the term really necessary?

2.Can the word help to solve challenges related to

the field (caused by the current lack of clarity)?3. Is the word just for marketing purposes or does

it instead convey an important technical /

solution connotation?


6/21


Rationale for Introduction

Before we define what Semantic Intelligence is; lets

examine some of the reasons why this term is

needed:

1. The field of Semantic Technology has expanded

rapidly over th

e past 5 years;however t

here is still agap in understanding as to how it can be applied to

real world situations.

2. The disciplines known as Business Intelligence and

Decision Support are merging rapidly with Semantic

technology.3. There needs to be a term that properly explains both

the nature of the solution and its functionality when it

comes to aiding cognition.


7/21


Learning from shared experience or knowledge ishow civilization evolved. IT needs to embrace a

paradigm that doesnt always require building

solutions from scratch everywhere at the same time.


8/21


Business Intelligence

Current IT practice refers to analytic capabilities in

several ways; including Business Intelligence,Decision Support, Dashboards, Reports etc.

Each of those terms tends to be fairly generic e.g.

any number of solution approaches may be used todevelop them. What they share in common is value

added examination of underlying data sources based

upon defined expectations (queries, rulesets etc.)

The great shortcoming of the current paradigm is the

inability to share insight or knowledge across

enterprises, globally. This leads to a tremendous

amount of redundant work for all parties.


9/21


Related Term: Semantic Web

The industry definition for this Semantic Web is:

a web ofdata thatfacilitates machines to understandthe semantics, or meaning, ofinformation on the World

Wide Web. It extends the network ofhyperlinked

human-readable web pages byinserting machine-

readable metadata about pages and how they arerelated to each other, enabling automated agents to

access the Web more intelligently and perform tasks

on behalfofusers.

If you delve a little further youll find references to otherterms such as Linked Data, Inference, Vocabulary and

Vertical Applications as well as about a dozen

standards such as RDF and OWL.


10/21


What if much of the discovery we engaged in online

followed predetermined search paths orhighways?


11/21


What is the Semantic Web, Really?

This question has perplexed many inside and outside

of the IT community for the past decade, despitenumerous concerted efforts to educate or otherwise

increase awareness. So why hasnt it caught on, what

is hindering adoption?

Maturity is one factor, but weve already had manyyears to work with the Semantic Web.

Heres our theory; the term Semantic Web doesnt

necessarily clearly explain the what effectively. It

represents an end state rather than a specific

capability. Such a complex set of capabilities requires

more specific description and descriptors that are

easily identifiable in context with one another.


12/21


This term is a bit more straightforward as it does

clearly represent capability (or in this case a set ofrelated capabilities).

The one possible area of confusion relates to whether

specific Semantic tools or technology must be built

upon published Semantic Web standards or whetherthey support a somewhat wider set ofSemantic

Integration practices.

An example of th

e confusion occurred th

is year wh

enIBMs Watson defeated Jeopardys all time champions.

While Watson wasnt built around Semantic Web

standards it was built on a foundation of semantic

reasoning and integration.

Related Term: Semantic Technology


13/21


Watson demonstrated a number of key

capabilities associated with Semantic

Intelligence including intelligent search,

inference and assignment


14/21


The Semantic Enterprise is a variation of the larger

end state term Semantic Web. It is meant torepresent a prototypical organization that has

empowered its IT and Business capability through

application of a Semantic Architecture & Lifecycle

(which can be considered part ofSemanticIntegration).

Thus a Semantic Enterprise exhibits a number of

specific capabilities including SemanticIntelligence, Intelligent Search and Content

Management and it utilizes Semantic Integration to

guide its solutions lifecycle.

Related Term: Semantic Enterprise


15/21


Semantic Intelligence, Defined

Semantic Intelligence exists at two levels; first it

represents the immediate (local) ability to processdata and information-based semantic patterns and

rules in order to gain insight or add value. Secondly it

represents on a larger (global) perspective the ability

to harness shared knowledge in a more efficient,automated fashion.

The second part comes later as more organizations

make value enhanced information available in globalcommunities. This process has already begun

through development and sharing of Ontologies but

Ontologies are only the tip of the iceberg.


16/21


17/21


18/21


Implications ofSemantic Intelligence

Semantic Intelligence has the potential to unify a

variety of analytic approaches, tools or disciplines. Itcan accomplish this by providing a more specific set

of solution expectations.

Semantic Intelligence will likely have an importantimpact on other related technologies such as

Content Management & Publishing, Search

Management and other applications (such as ERP)

th

ath

ave significant analytic components. Most importantly, Semantic Intelligence is a near

term approach towards beginning to realize the

larger potential associated with the Semantic Web.


19/21


Conclusion

In order to properly exploit a thing that thing must

be well defined and understood.

The Semantic Web in fact represents dozens of

concepts and technical standards but has yet to fully

effectively define how they fit together. Moreover,there has been little or no definition in regards to the

methodology for exploiting those capabilities.

As part of ourRedefining the IT Lexicon we willprovide several more presentations to help better

define what Semantics in IT represents and how it

can be exploited right now


20/21


21/21


Semantech Inc. is InnovationWorx

Semantech Inc. is a solutions provider founded in

2007. Our company is located in the Dayton, Ohio

metro area. Since our inception we have

supported clients in a more than half a dozen

industries nationwide.

Our company represents a unique approach

were not offering just IT or Management

Consulting. We specialize in facilitating complex

organizational Transformations. This is why

InnovationWorx was created. Semantech was

founded to facilitate change

Semantic Intelligence

Documents

Transcript of Semantic Intelligence