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

[Ewan Klein]

John, 

You make some good points. But I'm not quite sure what you mean by "expressing triples" -- is it the URIs that you have problems with? RDF also provides a foundation for OWL, which is increasingly used for ontologies in various domains. And the growth of the LOD cloud [1] suggests that there is a lot of mileage in the linking part of Linked Data. 

Regards,

Ewan

[1] http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/

On 30 Nov 2011, at 23:39, 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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