Vision of semantic processing and the latest trends

Abstract

During the last decade, the emphasis has been on finding relevant documents or content, an objective which most of today's search and browsing techniques address. During the next decade, the emphasis will shift from documents and entities to relationships - that of discovering or validating contextually relevant, meaningful and possibly complex relationships amongst the entities that documents mention and describe. This also is likely to be the next area of focus for the Semantic Web community after it makes progress in addressing the current areas of emphasis on ontology representation, semantic metadata extraction for automatic annotation, query processing and making inference.