Semantics

After many years, the semantic front is moving forward again. I wrote a little post about that here.

Semantic support to refine solutions based on statistics
A painfully slow but sure development of standards and projects to link a limited set of linguistic/unstructured data resources such as Wikipedia and some governmental sites with semantic repositories for better search

Of course, there will be progress in independent endeavours to improve natural language interfaces to semantic data bases...and people like me will like to see there some significant progress.

Some references

Neo4J	A graph data platform that has been around for quite some time. They produced the Cypher query language.	Java implementation
Owlready2	A library that allows you to load, manage and save ontologies. It also interacts with semantic reasoners.	Python implementation
OWL API	A Java API for manipulating OWL-minded ontologies	Java implementation
Jena	The Jena Project	One of the key frameworks for semantic web and Linked Data solutions
Hadoop	Apache Hadoop	This is actually an Apache software package for distributed computing, but it is highly useful when it comes to dealing with massive amounts of RDFs triplets and the like