Title: An intensional perspective on the semantic and pragmatic web

Authors: Terje Aaberge; Rajendra Akerkar; Harold Boley

Addresses: Vestlandsforsking, Sogndal 6851, Norway. ' Vestlandsforsking, Sogndal 6851, Norway. ' Institute for Information Technology, NRC, 46 Dineen Drive, Fredericton, NB, E3B 9W4, Canada

Abstract: In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the pragmatic web as an extension of the semantic web. After preliminary sketches and initial ideas, more formal attempts at characterising and defining pragmatic aspects of the web have recently emerged. Although some amount of scientific research and a number of applications have appeared under the name of the pragmatic web, there is not yet a common agreement on what the pragmatic web should be and how it should be formalised. In this paper, we consider the pragmatic web to be an augmentation of the semantic web with virtual agents exploiting web content on behalf of human contractors.

Keywords: pragmatic web; semantic web; pragmatics; ontologies; intensional semantics; knowledge representation; virtual agents.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2011.042491

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2011 Vol.6 No.1, pp.74 - 80

Received: 20 Oct 2010
Accepted: 08 May 2011
Published online: 12 Feb 2015 *

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