7/29/2019 Computer Sce Question
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In computer science, the historical approach was to find a way
to shuffle and organize information into datastructures that
existing computers could manipulate. Databases, indexes, functions,
objects and so on.The result of these techniques was that the
underlying structure of the information was usually lost.
Once the internet emerged at an international level, the
problems of computer science based informationmanagement became
transparent. Graduate students from many fields realized this
problem and startedsearch engines that help organize information on
the internet in a fairly obvious way, still based on
computerscience techniques. Even so, companies that were started to
search and organize information on the internethave been
significant commercial successes, still with limited real
effectiveness for their users.
The internet presents information processing problems at a
different scale and nature than the problemscomputer science had
evolved to manage. It is a problem of structure. When computer
scientists wereconfronted with the vastness and growth of the
internet and its language based information, they primarilyturned
to statistical methods to divine structures for the information
collections on the internet.
Computer Science is unique as a science because it endeavors to
place information, a naturalphenomenon , INTO computer based
structures. On the other hand, natural sciences works to DIS-COVER
the structure of a natural phenomenon, in this case the internet,
and then investigate how thatstructure evolved. The structure of a
natural phenomenon cannot be separated from its evolution
andnatural development. So man cannot create natural structures -
for a literary reference see Mary ShelleysFrankenstein.
Natural science techniques can be applied to internet
information, especially since the internet exhibitsclearly natural,
biological characteristics. The information on the internet is
structured at all levels, the level
of words, the level of sentences, the level of paragraphs, the
level of pages, the level email, the level of websites, the level
of categories, and so on. These levels occur naturally, they emerge
and self-organize,and form the natural structure of the information
on the internet. Without this structure, people could
notcommunicate to one another. Since this structure is complex and
not obvious, the Computer Sciencecommunity refers to the internet
as unstructured data, when in fact it is naturally structured
language.
There is a significant opportunity to apply current findings of
neuroscientists, psychologists, and appliedmathematicians and their
discoveries of the structure of language and its operation in
humans andcommunities of humans. This new approach has detected
small and large scale structures in language, andthese discovered
structures can be used to self-organizing language based
intelligent cyberstructures thatcan be searched and interacted with
human understandable languages.
Whether this new web will be called the Semantic Web or the
Natural Langauage Web is still an opendiscussion.
Sincerely,Steve Kohlerwww.iwoorx.com
The Structure of Unstructured Information
