Semantic Web and Semantic Technology Trends in 2018 - DATAVERSITY

There have been some exciting developments of late in the Semantic Web and Technology space. Semantic Technology trends in 2018 will continue to advance many of the trends discussed in 2017 and build upon a number of new changes just entering the marketplace. This fall, in fact, the Elsevier 2017 Semantic Web challenge focused on Knowledge Graphs. The winner was IBM Socrates by Michael Glass, Nandanda Mihindukulasooriya, Oktie Hassanzadeh, and Alfio Gliozzo of IBM Research AI. "Knowledge Graphs are currently among the most prominent implementations of Semantic Web technologies," an Elsevier press release stated. "Innovative integration of additional Artificial Intelligence techniques such as Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Deep Learning over multiple web sources to find and check facts. Their knowledge graph outperformed the state of the art."