From social computing to reflexive collective intelligence: The IEML research program

  • Authors:
  • Pierre Lévy

  • Affiliations:
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Canada Research Chair in Collective Intelligence, University of Ottawa, Department of Communication, 30 Stewart, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The IEML research program promotes a radical innovation in the notation and processing of semantics. IEML (Information Economy MetaLanguage) is a regular language that provides new methods for semantic interoperability, semantic navigation, collective categorization and self-referential collective intelligence. This research program is compatible with the major standards of the Web of data and is in tune with the current trends in social computing. The paper explains the philosophical relevance of this new language, expounds its syntactic and semantic structures and ponders its possible implications for the growth of collective intelligence in cyberspace.