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Rich semantics and expressiveness

From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:04:21 +0100
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To: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>

Hi all,

A question from someone who is not well-read in the knowledge  
representation literature. What is meant by statements such as this:

     "In general, ontologies are more expressive and have richer
      semantics than relational schemas ..." [1]

Are there definitions for "expressivity" and "semantic richness"? Is  
there an objective measurement for these dimensions?

Cheers,
Richard

[1] http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/~paea/research/ssws06.pdf
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