The Naïve Ontologist and "Intelligent" Story Telling

Abstract

Semantic Search has become, that is to say been re-discovered to be, the key theme for Intelligent Systems in 2012. No humans need apply. Semantic search, as Tim Berners-Lee predicted in his seminal little book on the World Wide Web, is the ultimate goal. After the Ultimate Goal has been obtained, and all the machines are happily communicating, what is in it for us, humans? To be sure, for us, it is to be more human! Humans tell stories, to themselves, and to other humans. Many of these stories have been, in the first instance, of an oral nature. Then they were written down. Now they appear electronically. The full spectrum of the technology of our age is used to reinvent the same old stories (7 in total). Precision in identity is sought through the formal ontology. A new story concerning Vela Peeva is revealed.