Re: Many meanings of Is A

I went thru a similar problem when I was trying to figure out how to 
translate
English "is" into mKR language.   I found about 10 meanings listed in my
dictionary.
My notes are attached.

Dick

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bijan Parsia" <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
To: "Matt Williams" <matthew.williams@cancer.org.uk>
Cc: "Owl Dev" <public-owl-dev@w3.org>; "Semantic Web" <semantic-web@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: Many meanings of Is A


>
> On Jun 19, 2008, at 8:57 PM, Matt Williams wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I remember reading somewhere that someone had once compared many 
>> different usages of "Is A".
>>
>> Can anyone point me to the ref?
>
> "What IS-a is and isn't", by Ron Brachman.
>
> IIRC, he distinguishes on the order of 27 senses in use at the time  in 
> KR/semantic net systems.
>
> I believe it's online.
>
> Cheers,
> Bijan.
>
>
Dick McCullough
http://mKRmKE.org/
knowledge := man do identify od existent done;
knowledge haspart proposition list;
mKE do enhance od "Real Intelligence" done;