Re: [WN] comments on draft

mark@few.vu.nl wrote:

>Hi,
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>>>Technically, a mapping could be done between the two semantics, but 
>>>the interpretation of all synsets as classes and of all hypernymOf 
>>>relations as subClassOf is untenable wrt intuition, because many 
>>>synsets refer to individuals, 
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>>...that's a bug in the data, not the metamodel, one might argue.
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>We can offer the synsets-as-classes option for those who would like to use it in
>that way, by describing that they can add
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>- wn:Synset rdfs:subClassOf rdfs:Class
>- wn:hyponymOf rdfs:subPropertyOf rdfs:subClassOf
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>to the version we have now. If this is desirable to promote is another point.
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I guess OWL-DL enthusiasts won't like this approach... nor to see such 
statements in the RDFS/OWL documents available at the relevant namespace(s).

Dan

Received on Sunday, 27 November 2005 06:13:04 UTC