{"id":108,"date":"2005-11-25T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-25T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2005\/11\/25\/semantic-web-spam-swam\/"},"modified":"2005-11-25T08:04:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-25T08:04:00","slug":"semantic-web-spam-swam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2005\/11\/25\/semantic-web-spam-swam\/","title":{"rendered":"Semantic Web Spam (SWAM)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was just looking at the Workshop on Models of Trust for the Web<\/a> (which I was hipped to through Dragomir Radev<\/a>‘s ilist<\/a>) and was delighted to read an articulation of something I was just talking to a West Pole colleague about, namely abusing inference engines used within the Semantic Web framework to mislead people. The description of this workshop names this Semantic Web Spam (SWAM)…<\/p>\n

“As it gets easier to add information to the web via html
pages, wikis, blogs, and other documents, it gets tougher
to distinguish accurate information from inaccurate or
untrustworthy information. A search engine query usually
results in several hits that are outdated and\/or from
unreliable sources and the user is forced to go through
the results and pick what she\/he considers the most
reliable information based on her\/his trust
requirements. With the introduction of web services, the
problem is further exacerbated as users have to come up
with a new set of requirements for trusting web services
and web services themselves require a more automated way
of trusting each other. Apart from inaccurate or outdated
information, we also need to anticipate Semantic Web Spam
(SWAM) where spammers publish false facts and scams to
deliberately mislead users. This workshop is interested in
all aspects of enabling trust on the web.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was just looking at the Workshop on Models of Trust for the Web (which I was hipped to through Dragomir Radev‘s ilist) and was delighted to read an articulation of something I was just talking to a West Pole colleague about, namely abusing inference engines used within the Semantic Web framework to mislead people.… Continue reading Semantic Web Spam (SWAM)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75BYE-1K","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":81,"url":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2007\/02\/09\/sustainopedia-or-useful-microcontributions\/","url_meta":{"origin":108,"position":0},"title":"Sustainopedia, or useful microcontributions","date":"February 9, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I was filling out a survey for Grist and found myself writing the following in the comments section:In question #6, you pose the following for people to respond to: \"Passively reading is so 20th century; Grist should publish content I can interact with (comment on it, vote in polls, rank\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "values"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25,"url":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2008\/10\/08\/trusting-computer-generated-advice\/","url_meta":{"origin":108,"position":1},"title":"Trusting Computer Generated Advice","date":"October 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Was getting directions to go to a thing.Went to Google Maps.was goin' from Ann Arbor, MI to 2600 S Telegraph Rd # 100, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302It gave me this:View Larger MapNow, if I was doing w\/o the benefit of this sufficiently complex magic mapping tool, I would have taken\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":21,"url":"https:\/\/heartwoodcollective.com\/infolantern\/2008\/11\/06\/best-display-of-2008-election-results\/","url_meta":{"origin":108,"position":2},"title":"best display of 2008 election results","date":"November 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The NPR site was easily the best overall presentation of 2008 presidential election results. 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