Re: SKOS properties

Hi, All,
As a terminologist, the notion of adding antonyms as equivalents/synonyms
strikes me as really undesirable. In an ontology-like environment it would
really be problematic. By the same token, it is hard to classify antonym
relations -- this has long been a subject of debate in
terminology/lexicography circles. I rather like the idea of "disjointwith"
together with a scope note. Especially in multilingual concept management,
knowing the antonym is often a real clue to the disambiguation of the
concept associated with a term.
Bye for now
Sue Ellen


On 4/26/07, Stella Dextre Clarke <sdclarke@lukehouse.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>  You may like to know that ISO 2788 and BS 8723 both allow you to admit
> antonyms as though they were equivalents (with relationship tagged USE/UF)
> if appropriate. For example, in my own thesaurus I have an entry
> "Inconsistency of indexing USE Indexing consistency" because both of these
> terms are actually referring to the same underlying concept. (A scope note
> might describe it  as "the degree of  consistency or
> inconsistency encountered in indexing".) If you want to be more precise, you
> could set it up as a special type of equivalence relationship.
>
> SKOS could choose to handle antonyms the same way, if it wishes. (*some*
> antonyms, I should stress - not all examples would be suitable for this
> treatment.) In an ontology, you might prefer the relationships to be more
> specific.
>
> Cheers
> Stella
>
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>   -----Original Message-----
> *From:* public-esw-thes-request@w3.org [mailto:
> public-esw-thes-request@w3.org] *On Behalf Of *Quentin Reul
> *Sent:* 26 April 2007 12:08
> *To:* SWD Working Group
> *Cc:* public-esw-thes@w3.org
> *Subject:* SKOS properties
>
> Hi all,
> I was looking at the properties available as part of SKOS and realized
> that there wasn't any properties to represent antonyms. However, these are
> sometimes useful and present in some thesauri such as WordNet. Would
> owl:disjointWith be sufficient to represent antonyms?
> Thanks,
> Quentin
>
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