1. Four popular fallacies
about the Semantic Web

2. 2
First: clear up some popular
misunderstandings
False statement No :
“Semantic Web people try to
enforce meaning from the top”
They only “enforce” a language.
They don’t enforce what is said in that language
Compare: HTML “enforced” from the top,
But content is entirely free.

3. 3
First: clear up some popular
misunderstandings
False statement No :
“The Semantic Web people will require
everybody to subscribe to a single predefined
"meaning" for the terms we use.”
Of course, meaning is fluid, contextual, etc.
Lot’s of work on (semi)-automatically
bridging between different vocabularies.

4. 4
First: clear up some popular
misunderstandings
False statement No :
“The Semantic Web will require users to
understand the complicated details of
formalised knowledge representation.”
All of this is “under the hood”.

5. 5
First: clear up some popular
misunderstandings
False statement No :
“The Semantic Web people will require us to
manually markup all the existing web-pages.”
Lots of work on automatically producing
semantic markup:
named-entity recognition,
concept extraction, etc.