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Processing of semantics by, e.g., analyzing ontologies, with the concomitant effort in building ontologies, will always have to compete with continuous advances in algorithms and encodings for graph theory, speech recognition and synthesis. Ultimately, the technique will prevail in a given situation that is superior in effectiveness (meeting a needed functionality not easily achievable by other means), and/or efficiency (providing the functionality with a minimum of resources). Coming from a database technology background, this paper gives a few examples of recent projects where the efficiency of database and web technologies was combined with the effectiveness of techniques around ontologies. The paper goes on to argue that by extending the concept of database views to semantics one obtains the means for systematically dealing with pragmatics.
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The author wishes to express his gratitude to his former and current young colleagues and scientists Carsten Holtmann, Gabor Nagypal, Jens Nimis, Natalja Pulter, Andreas Schmidt, and Andreas Walter whose work forms the substance of this paper.
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Lockemann, P.C. (2011). Effectiveness and Efficiency of Semantics. In: Fensel, D. (eds) Foundations for the Web of Information and Services. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19797-0_3
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