Why is semantics an important area of technology research and development, especially now?
Semantics shows enormous potential in making software more efficient, adaptive, and intelligent. It is recognized as one of the areas that will bring the next breakthrough in software development. The idea of semantics has been welcomed by visionaries and early adopters. For example, semantics has been used in medical informatics studies, and the community produced popular tools such as Protg ontology editor. However, the idea of semantics has failed to appeal to the majority of mainstream users, at least until recently. It is said that the idea was too arcane for ordinary folks to understand. There is no standard way of working with ontology, but many different proprietary ways. There were not enough tools for programming semantics and managing various aspects of the life cycle of ontologies. Recently, however, the semantic Web initiative led by W3C has changed the semantics landscape completely. Through the initiative, researchers and developers join forces to provide standard semant
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