- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 16:22:28 -0600
- To: Misha.Wolf@reuters.com
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
As I won't be at the F2F, my 2c worth of comment on this issue: > >- The above seems to suggest that degrees of fuzziness are required, at > user option, as with regular search engines. Fuzziness of matching is not acceptable for RDF: it would break every inference engine ever written. Language tagging is largely incidental to proposed RDF usage in any case, as RDF is not intended to be read by human beings. Also bear in mind that most proposed RDF usage is not concerned with text. >- All of the above is closely related to other "control" constructs > needed for correctly writing text in different languages, eg BiDi > controls for BiDirectional languages. Though Math(s) is a language > in quite a different sense, the same problem arises. Let's say the > title of a paper contains something that can't be expressed in plain > text, eg an integral from value A to value B. How do I do this in > RDF I would say that RDF deals with Unicode strings. How to encode an integral in Unicode is someone else's problem. >and how will others match on it? Again, someone else's problem. Intelligent text retrieval is a large research area, but it is also largely independent of ontology language design. RDF does not have the resources to do both jobs. at once. Pat Hayes -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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