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IEML : BILAN ET PERSPECTIVES

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Comment surmonter la diversité des langues et l'incompatibilité des systèmes de classification utilisés par les bases de données et réseaux sociaux en ligne afin d'étudier scientifiquement l'intelligence collective humaine et de lui permettre de se réfléchir dans le cyberespace? Pour résoudre ce problème, j'ai inventé un système de notation sémantique, baptisé métalangage de l'économie de l'information (IEML). IEML est original par rapport aux normes du "Web sémantique", mais compatibles avec elles. Ce nouveau langage formel autorise la cartographie et la calculabilité des processus de cognition sociale dans un espace sémantique pratiquement infini. Son utilisation comme outil d'échange de métadonnées sur le Web aidera à construire des ponts entre langues, ontologies et univers de discours différents. Un dictionnaire IEML multilingue et des outils à sources ouvertes seront mis à la disposition du public en 2009. Sur la base des résultats obtenus, un réseau international de recherche et développement sur le balisage sémantique en IEML sera lancé en 2009. Ce réseau vise trois objectifs principaux : 1) augmenter les unités lexicales et les langues naturelles du dictionnaire IEML ; 2) développer une société d'agents sémantiques open source permettant à ses utilisateurs d'échanger des informations balisées en IEML et de produire des cartes dynamiques de leur intelligence collective; 3) initier des spécialistes à l'utilisation du métalangage dans le cadre d'une école internationale de balisage sémantique.

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