Re: mapping FOL -> DL

On Sep 28, 2004, at 5:55 AM, Graham Klyne wrote:

>
> Er, I may just be repeating an obvious reference but, just in case, 
> I'll mention Alex Borgida's 1996 paper "On the Relative Expressiveness 
> of Description Logics and Predicate Logics", which makes its point by 
> setting up a translation:
>   ftp://ftp.cs.rutgers.edu/pub/borgida/dl-vs-fol.pdf.gz
>
> #g

Graham,

Isn't the question here how to take an arbitrary FOL theory and "make 
the best of it" in OWL?  Alex's paper (if memory serves) gave the 
translation from some DL or other *into* FOL, not the other way around.

	.bill

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