[WNET] Synset's and Classes - dumb question from McBride, Brian on 2004-05-05 (public-swbp-wg@w3.org from May 2004)

From: McBride, Brian <brian.mcbride@hp.com>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 14:05:34 +0100
To: SWBPD list <public-swbp-wg@w3.org>
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Looking through the discusion on representing WordNet, I've been trying to
understand the relation between wordnets, thesauri and ontologies.

Is there a consensus view on the relationship between a wordnet synset and
the class the synonyms names, i.e. is the synset containing the word 'dog'
necessarily owl:sameAs the class of dogs?

Also, does WordNet have synsets for relations?  Do such synsets have
hypernyms or hyponyms?  If so is rdfs:subClassOf rather rdfs:subPropertyOf
correct?

Brian

Received on Wednesday, 5 May 2004 09:06:15 UTC