Re: on the treatment of certainty (in "Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web: Use With Individuals") from Natasha Noy on 2004-07-29 (public-swbp-wg@w3.org from July 2004)

From: Natasha Noy <noy@smi.stanford.edu>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 19:28:28 -0700
To: "Yoshio FUKUSHIGE" <fuku@w3.org>
Cc: <public-swbp-wg@w3.org>
Message-Id: <F9C04028-E106-11D8-A5BA-000A958B5C28@smi.stanford.edu>

Dear Yoshio,

Your discussion of different treatment of probabilities is very 
interesting. While I don't think it is quite relevant to the note on 
n-ary relations -- the goal of that note was to discuss something 
different and we used probability just as an example -- it may be 
useful to have a set of design patterns for different ways to treat 
probabilities and uncertainty in RDF and OWL. Perhaps, we can have a 
separate note specifying patterns for this? Folks on OEP TF, what do 
you think? If people find it generally  useful, Yoshio, would you be 
interested in contributing such a note?
	
>
> "It seems with high probability that Christine has breast tumor."

This is the interpretation that we had in mind.

Natasha

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