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| Radar Networks Launches Twine Semantic Web Tagging Service |
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posted by Editor
on Monday October 29, @10:31PM
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This article in MIT Technology Review describes Twine, a new web service being launched by startup Radar Networks that registers W3C-compliant metadata for user data such as e-mail, web searches, calendar entries, notes, spreadsheets, documents, and presentations. In addition to relying on manual tagging by users to identify information, Twine applies natural-language processing and learning algorithms to extract key concepts from text so that submitted data can be tagged automatically. This may help to overcome some of the metadata credibility challenges that critics of the semantic web have raised. Twine also uses social graph analysis to assist users in searching for information based on the connections between people and their information. In this scheme, the system establishes the statistical relevance of one user (or node) to another -- the "farther away" a node is, the less relevant it is to a particular user's search.
Twine is currently accepting registrations for beta testers, and plans to open fully to the public in 2008.
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