[NLP2RDF] [Corpora-List] Announcement: NLP Interchange Format (NIF) 1.0 Spec, Demo and Reference Implementation

[Arnim Bleier]

Hi John,
Conceptual Graphs have never really made it either.
Some don't know what KIF stands for but see no prb in
foaf:currentProject & monotonic RDF.
So.. lets call it research ;)
BestArnim
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:39 AM,  <sowa at bestweb.net> wrote:
> RDF is the world's most outlandishly bloated way of expressing triples. IBM
> did not adopt it for Watson, Google never adopted it, Facebook never adopted
> it, Amazon never adopted it. Apple never adopted RDF, and they trounced
> Nokia, who poured millions of euros into research on the Semantic Web.
>
> Even the W3C has backed off from using RDF by promoting RDFa, whose only
> resemblance to RDF is in the three lettters R D F.  Programmers are rapidly
> migrating away from RDF to notations such as JSON, which is basically LISP
> with curly braces.
>
> At this late date, why would anybody working on NLP adopt a  notation that
> all the major web companies abandoned or rejected?
>
> John
>
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