Re: owl:sameAs links from OpenCyc to WordNet

2009/2/23 Matthias Samwald <samwald@gmx.at>:
>
>
>> I thought maybe SKOS [1] might have a suitable term, but alas not. The
>> nearest I can find on a quick vocab skim (see [2]) are variations on
>> 'label', but these are unsuitable not only because they're a bit weak,
>> but also because their range is a literal. So +1 to making up a custom
>> term.
>
> I would suggest using rdfs:seeAlso. I know, I know, usually people complain
> that rdfs:seeAlso is too generic and demand that the community should come
> up with some kind of "is quite similar to" predicate (this has been going on
> for a while now and to my knowledge there are still no serious outcomes).

true, swag:kindaLike is a good effort from 2001... [1]

 In
> contrast, I would still prefer an established, generic property to something
> that needs to be invented anew. rdfs:seeAlso is established (which also
> means that people are more likely to re-use it then something you create in
> your own little namespace), and it is also understood by some existing
> applications. If all of us are starting to create our own "is quite similar
> to" predicates, we are probably worse off than just using rdfs:seeAlso. The
> semantics of these "is quite similar to" relations would probably be so
> fuzzy that they would hardly be any more precise and useful than
> rdfs:seeAlso, anyways.

There does seem to be a considerably more precise correspondence
between Cyc concepts and WordNet terms than rdfs:seeAlso describes.

But taking your point of what existing applications understand,
perhaps it might make sense to use rdfs:seeAlso in parallel with a
custom term?

Cheers,
Danny.

[1] http://infomesh.net/n3/2001-05-util.n3

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Received on Monday, 23 February 2009 19:05:13 UTC