Multi-Dimensional Summarization in Cyber-Physical Society

Foreword

Yorick Wilks

IHMC, Pensacola and Ocala, FL, United States

University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

It is a pleasure to write a foreword to Hai Zhuge’s new book and to welcome him to the UK as a colleague, as he takes up his chair at Aston University. Within the wider Semantic Web research project, I think Hai Zhuge is trying to do something bold and important: first, by asking how can big data, and all that the movement now entails, be made to yield up representations that give us some understanding of the content implicit in the data, that is not essentially textual. This is his Resource Space Model, a multi-dimensional category space that uniformly represents human understanding and the patterns in real and abstract ...