Re: owl:sameAs links from OpenCyc to WordNet

So this does mean that there should be a specialization of rdfs:seeAlso?

Juan Sequeda, Ph.D Student
Dept. of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
www.juansequeda.com
www.semanticwebaustin.org


On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/2/23 Matthias Samwald <samwald@gmx.at>:
> >
> >
> >> I thought maybe SKOS [1] might have a suitable term, but alas not. The
> >> nearest I can find on a quick vocab skim (see [2]) are variations on
> >> 'label', but these are unsuitable not only because they're a bit weak,
> >> but also because their range is a literal. So +1 to making up a custom
> >> term.
> >
> > I would suggest using rdfs:seeAlso. I know, I know, usually people
> complain
> > that rdfs:seeAlso is too generic and demand that the community should
> come
> > up with some kind of "is quite similar to" predicate (this has been going
> on
> > for a while now and to my knowledge there are still no serious outcomes).
>
> true, swag:kindaLike is a good effort from 2001... [1]
>
>  In
> > contrast, I would still prefer an established, generic property to
> something
> > that needs to be invented anew. rdfs:seeAlso is established (which also
> > means that people are more likely to re-use it then something you create
> in
> > your own little namespace), and it is also understood by some existing
> > applications. If all of us are starting to create our own "is quite
> similar
> > to" predicates, we are probably worse off than just using rdfs:seeAlso.
> The
> > semantics of these "is quite similar to" relations would probably be so
> > fuzzy that they would hardly be any more precise and useful than
> > rdfs:seeAlso, anyways.
>
> There does seem to be a considerably more precise correspondence
> between Cyc concepts and WordNet terms than rdfs:seeAlso describes.
>
> But taking your point of what existing applications understand,
> perhaps it might make sense to use rdfs:seeAlso in parallel with a
> custom term?
>
> Cheers,
> Danny.
>
> [1] http://infomesh.net/n3/2001-05-util.n3
>
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