Re: Literals in OWL - Clarification

Dear Matt,=0A=0AI think you can find what you want in the following paper (=
but it only gives literals in ALC):=0A=0AMeghyn Bienvenu.=0A       Conseque=
nce Finding in ALC=0A=0ARegards,=0A=0AGuilin=0A=0A----- Original Message --=
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From: Matt Williams <matthew.williams@cancer.org.uk>
To: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
Cc: Owl Dev <public-owl-dev@w3.org>
Sent: Friday, 18 January, 2008 9:05:06 AM
Subject: Re: Literals in OWL - Clarification


Dear Bijan,

Thanks for these - I should have been more exact: I am looking for a 
definition of an OWL literal. Something of the form:

"An atom is of the form C(i) or R(i,j) or S(i,d); A literal is an atom 
or a negated atom"

I'm sure it exists - I just can't find it.

Thanks,

Matt

Bijan Parsia wrote:
> 
> For the syntax (and some discussion) in abstract syntax:
>     http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-semantics/syntax.html
> e.g.,:
>     "The built-in RDF datatype, rdf:XMLLiteral, is also an OWL
 built-in 
> datatype."
> 
> See:
>     http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-semantics/direct.html#3.1
> e.g.,:
>     "Definition: An OWL vocabulary V consists of a set of literals VL
 
> and seven sets of URI references...VD, the datatype names of a 
> vocabulary, contains the URI references for the built-in OWL
 datatypes 
> and rdfs:Literal.
> Definition: As in RDF, a datatype d is characterized by a lexical
 space, 
> L(d), which is a set of Unicode strings; a value space, V(d); and a 
> total mapping L2V(d) from the lexical space to the value space.
> 
> Definition: A datatype map D is a partial mapping from URI references
 to 
> datatypes that maps xsd:string and xsd:integer to the appropriate XML
 
> Schema datatypes.
> 
> A datatype map may contain datatypes for the other built-in OWL 
> datatypes. It may also contain other datatypes, but there is no 
> provision in the OWL syntax for conveying what these datatypes are."
> 
> etc.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bijan.
> 

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<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dear Matt,<br><br>I think you can find what you want in the following paper (but it only gives literals in ALC):<br><br>Meghyn Bienvenu.
       <a href="http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-250/paper_49.pdf">Consequence Finding in ALC</a><br><br>Regards,<br><br>Guilin<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Matt Williams &lt;matthew.williams@cancer.org.uk&gt;<br>To: Bijan Parsia &lt;bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk&gt;<br>Cc: Owl Dev &lt;public-owl-dev@w3.org&gt;<br>Sent: Friday, 18 January, 2008 9:05:06 AM<br>Subject: Re: Literals in OWL - Clarification<br><br><br>Dear Bijan,<br><br>Thanks for these - I should have been more exact: I am looking for a <br>definition of an OWL literal. Something of the form:<br><br>"An atom is of the form C(i) or R(i,j) or S(i,d); A literal is an atom <br>or a negated atom"<br><br>I'm sure it exists - I just can't find it.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Matt<br><br>Bijan Parsia wrote:<br>&gt; <br>&gt; For the syntax (and some discussion) in abstract
 syntax:<br>&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp;  <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-semantics/syntax.html" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-semantics/syntax.html</a><br>&gt; e.g.,:<br>&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp;  "The built-in RDF datatype, rdf:XMLLiteral, is also an OWL
 built-in <br>&gt; datatype."<br>&gt; <br>&gt; See:<br>&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp;  <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-semantics/direct.html#3.1" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-semantics/direct.html#3.1</a><br>&gt; e.g.,:<br>&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp;  "Definition: An OWL vocabulary V consists of a set of literals VL
 <br>&gt; and seven sets of URI references...VD, the datatype names of a <br>&gt; vocabulary, contains the URI references for the built-in OWL
 datatypes <br>&gt; and rdfs:Literal.<br>&gt; Definition: As in RDF, a datatype d is characterized by a lexical
 space, <br>&gt; L(d), which is a set of Unicode strings; a value space, V(d); and a <br>&gt; total mapping L2V(d) from the lexical space to the value space.<br>&gt; <br>&gt; Definition: A datatype map D is a partial mapping from URI references
 to <br>&gt; datatypes that maps xsd:string and xsd:integer to the appropriate XML
 <br>&gt; Schema datatypes.<br>&gt; <br>&gt; A datatype map may contain datatypes for the other built-in OWL <br>&gt; datatypes. It may also contain other datatypes, but there is no <br>&gt; provision in the OWL syntax for conveying what these datatypes are."<br>&gt; <br>&gt; etc.<br>&gt; <br>&gt; Cheers,<br>&gt; Bijan.<br>&gt; <br><br>-- <br><a href="http://acl.icnet.uk/%7Emw" target="_blank">http://acl.icnet.uk/~mw</a><br><a href="http://adhominem.blogsome.com/" target="_blank">http://adhominem.blogsome.com/</a><br>+44 (0)7834 899570<br><br></div><br></div></div><br>
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