- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@isr.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:43:16 -0500
- To: Francis McCabe <fgm@fla.fujitsu.com>
- Cc: "Ugo Corda" <UCorda@SeeBeyond.com>, <public-sws-ig@w3.org>, Jack Berkowitz <jack.berkowitz@networkinference.com>
On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 05:00 PM, Francis McCabe wrote: > Ehem > Notwithstanding the technologies being discussed, *translation* > between ontologies is about as tractable in the general case as > mapping between English and Japanese. Depends on what you mean by general case, of course. But I don't think Jack and I were misleading on this front. I mean, the simplest reading of "reading across ontology" compatible with all that Jack wrote is fairly trivial (i.e., reasoning across concept heirarchies partial defined in many files owned by diverse, non-coordinated authors; of course, such reasoning may often be uninteresting). > However, an approach based on translating queries is, in principle, > more doable than arbitrary mapping. Care to articulate the difference that makes the difference in your eyes? Cheers, Bijan Parsia.
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