- From: Sean Bechhofer <sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:01:07 +0100
- To: Quentin Reul <qreul@csd.abdn.ac.uk>
- Cc: SWD WG <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
On 24 Sep 2007, at 11:41, Quentin Reul wrote: > Hi, > > I have looked at different aspects of SKOS and I have got a few > questions as a result: > > First of all, I was wondering if there was any reasoner available > to create a thesaurus tree and find out all the different terms > that are "broader/narrower" for a given term. > > My understanding is that the "broader/narrower" relationship is > transitive, i.e. if the user adds a term has being broader, this > term would have the previous term as narrower without having to add > the statement to the second term. Broader/narrower are intended to be *inverses*, which I think is what you mean here. The transitivity of broader/narrower is one of the topics that's up for discussion at the F2F. See "Semantic Relation Properties" in [1]. Cheers, Sean [1] http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/AmsterdamAgenda -- Sean Bechhofer School of Computer Science University of Manchester sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/people/bechhofer
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