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A review of the semantic web field

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Tracing the triumphs and challenges of two decades of Semantic Web research and applications.

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        Communications of the ACM  Volume 64, Issue 2
        February 2021
        108 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/3447971
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