type of http://dbpedia.org/page/Bachelor_of_Arts

Dear all,

I noticed that dbpedia:Bachelor_of_Arts, as well as other similar entities (dbpedia:Bachelor_of_Engineering, dbpedia:Bachelor_of_Science, etc.), is typed as dbpedia-owl:University
I would expect a type like “Academic Degree” but if you look at
dbpedia:Academic_Degree, its type is again dbpedia-owl:University

however, its definition is (according to dbpedia):

"An academic degree is a college or university diploma, often associated with a title and sometimes associated with an academic position, which is usually awarded in recognition of the recipient having either satisfactorily completed a prescribed course of study or having conducted a scholarly endeavour deemed worthy of his or her admission to the degree. The most common degrees awarded today are associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees.”

Showing that there are at least two different meanings associated with the term: college/university and title.
I thing that different meanings should be separated so as to allow applications to refer to the different entities: a university or a title.

At least for me this causes errors in automatic relation extraction...

Wdyt?

Valentina

Received on Monday, 13 October 2014 00:42:56 UTC