- From: Aldo Gangemi <aldo.gangemi@istc.cnr.it>
- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 18:46:40 +0200
- To: danbri@w3.org
- Cc: "Christopher Welty" <welty@us.ibm.com>, "Lars Marius Garshol" <larsga@ontopia.net>, public-swbp-wg@w3.org, public-swbp-wg-request@w3.org
> >Perhaps if there were a well-known utility class, like xyz:NamingProperty, >we could use that instead? I'm sure there is more work to do in this area >on I18N anyhow (use of markup in labels, comments), ie. rdfs:label is >far from the final word on this topic. > >Dan > The label semantics problem is well known in linguistics; in WNET we have a related discussion on how to encode WordNet entries: labels, strings with dedicated annotation properties, or owl:individuals I think those problem emerge from formal semantics lacking support for semiotic beasts like datatypes, names, labels, etc. BTW, Dan's proposal to add a new top-level property like owl:NamingProperty in OWL(DL) is excellent. It can be combined with additional properties for contextualizing names (useful to restrict the name to a natural language, a community, etc.). Aldo -- Aldo Gangemi Research Scientist Laboratory for Applied Ontology Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technology National Research Council (ISTC-CNR) Via Nomentana 56, 00161, Roma, Italy Tel: +390644161535 Fax: +390644161513 aldo.gangemi@istc.cnr.it http://www.istc.cnr.it/createhtml.php?nbr=71
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