RE: No Standard Semantic Web Pragmatics?

Hi Jim --

At 05:59 PM 6/16/04 -0400, you wrote:
>In short, I realize what I am really arguing for is some sort of 
>operational semantics of this stuff that makes some sense to us as humans, 
>works well enough in practice for us to build systems out of, and someday 
>can perhaps be formalized as an interesting new means of human-machine 
>interaction

We have taken a stab at this in the Internet Business Logic 
system.  There's an underlying highly declarative semantics at the 
technical level, but at the all-important human level we attach English 
sentences to predicates so that non-technical folks can have some idea of 
their "operational" meaning in the real world.

The system is live, online at the site listed below.  On can us a browser 
to run (and change) the examples RDFQueryLangComparison1 and 
SemanticResolution1 to see how this can work.  There's also a "Semantic Web 
Presentation" with some motivation for the approach.

Is that the kind of thing you are looking for?   Cheers, -- Adrian



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