Milorad Tosic wrote: > It's very intriguing that you bring up the issue of the definition of > "semantic search". > There is a lot of hype on the academic as well as marketing side about the "semantic search".
Oh, well... do we have a definition for "semantic"? ;-) I think you should define what *you* mean for "semantic search", clearly state *your* problem and *your* use cases. And eventually prove that your approach either solve the problem or it is actually an improvement in comparison to a baseline or what we already have. When I type 'steiner schools uk' in Google Map, I get back exactly what I want. Is this an example of "semantic search"? Well, I don't know... it could well be, I have no way to be sure. Certainly as a user, when I am in front of a computer and I can type, I prefer to type that, rather then: "Where are all the Steiner schools in UK?". Some classify queries are "navigational" or "research" queries. In my mind I have a classification based on: "who", "where", "what", "when", "why", "how"... when these works are in a question you are given a big help by humans. Why and how are the toughest questions to answer, isn't it? Paolo
