Re: vartrans module

Dear Philipp,

see my answer below.

2015-07-02 22:41 GMT+02:00 Philipp Cimiano <cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de>
:

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> Am 02.07.15 um 15:49 schrieb Manuel Fiorelli:
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> There explanation after example 6:
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> "Clearly, the references of zip code and Postleitzahl are not the same.
> The extension of http://de.dbpedia.org/resource/Postleitzahl are German
> post codes, while the extension of http://dbpedia.org/ontology/zipCode
> are codes used in English-speaking countries. Nevertheless, both lexical
> entries can be translated into each other in written texts, so that a
> translation relation holds between them in spite of not being ontologically
> equivalent in a strict sense."
>
> I am unsure that the two properties have different extensions. However,
> they are syntactically different, so unless there is some equivalence axiom
> (I haven't checked), we are no authorized to conclude that they represent a
> shared reference.
>
>
> Good point. I changed this simply into:
>
> "Thus, in spite of using different concepts as references, both
> ''Postleitzahl'' and ''zip code'' are translations of each other."
>

Maybe we can gather additional opinions on this paragraph during the next
call (on LIME), but I suspect that the discussion on this matter can take a
lot of time :-(

-- 
Manuel Fiorelli