- From: Leo Obrst <lobrst@mitre.org>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:07:35 -0500
- To: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@isr.umd.edu>
- Cc: Francis McCabe <fgm@fla.fujitsu.com>, pat hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, public-sws-ig@w3.org
In general, this is harder than people think, and no, there is no automated way to do this yet, perhaps ever? Yes, we have some constructs in OWL now to attempt to do this and if folks use a common KR language, it's easier: you eliminate the dissonance from different formal language semantics. If anyone thinks it's easy, please let me know what you would suggest. Thanks, Leo Bijan Parsia wrote: > > On Dec 17, 2003, at 1:24 PM, Francis McCabe wrote: > > > The 'problem' I was referring to was that of automatically mapping one > > ontology (written I assume by person or persons A) to another (written > > by persons B). > > > > People have asserted that there exist automatic tools for doing that. > > And I was pointing out some corner cases. > > For the record, I don't believe that I, personally, made such an > assertion. Nor did I intend to. I didn't read anyone else in this > thread as doing so. > > Cheers, > Bijan Parsia. -- _____________________________________________ Dr. Leo Obrst The MITRE Corporation, Information Semantics lobrst@mitre.org Center for Innovative Computing & Informatics Voice: 703-883-6770 7515 Colshire Drive, M/S H305 Fax: 703-883-1379 McLean, VA 22102-7508, USA
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