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A Brief History of Semantics

As a word, “semantics” was first used by Michel Bréal, a French philologist (a language historian),in 1883. He studied how languages are organized, how languages change as time passes, and the connections within languages. Gen erally speaking, semantics is the study of language and its meaning.  More specifically, semantics can be used to describe how […]

Property Graphs vs. Knowledge Graphs

One of the greatest strengths of graph databases is their ability to treat “relationships” between the data as being as important as the data itself. They show a visual image of a graph in response to queries. Graph databases are designed to hold data without restricting it to a fixed, predetermined model. As a consequence, […]

Will They Blend? Meeting the Semantic Web

Click to learn more about author Martyna Pawletta. Let’s see if we can serve pizza via the Semantic Web and an analytics platform. Will they blend? Ontologies study concepts that directly relate to “being,” i.e., concepts that relate to existence and reality as well as the basic categories of being and their relations. In information science, […]

The Semantic Knowledge Graph: A Tribute

Noam Chomsky, the philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and father of modern linguistics, has authored over 1,000 articles and 130 books. The 89-year-old intellectual also has written films and appeared in many documentaries. The substantial work he has done in linguistics and politics has earned him the title of “most cited living author.” Now […]