Yahoo!, Google and Bing launched revolutionary microdata format that will change the way search engines understand, analyze and categorize your site! Will that make a breakthrough in chatbot industry as well? The video above presents Schema.org project, explaining its functionality on the basis of the word “avatar”. In fact, it is quite confusing, because the term ‘avatar’ can refer to the famous movie, a digital image representing a human, and also avatar in the form of conversational agent present on a website. Chatbots.org have already identified this term as a part of over 130 chatbots synonyms collection.
Semantic Web technology oriented project Schema.org was launched commonly by three big Web companies: Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. The project will benefit search engines, webmasters and users providing better search results.
According to professor Dennis McLeod from Semantic Information Research Laboratory at the University of Southern California this data can be used by any software to cross-correlate things that are related, or to understand the relationship between information from different sources. Therefore also personal digital assistants, conversational agents and chatbot technology will be able to make use of this widespread availability of online semantic information.
What does semantic information mean exactly? Schema.org provides a shared collection of html tags that webmasters can use to markup their pages. Once their pages are marked up, major search engines (Bing, Google and Yahoo!) will be able to understand the meaning of concepts on web pages and to provide richer search results for users. Therefore also knowledgebases of chatbots can easily access website related to particular topic on the basis of that tags.
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