- From: Umberto Straccia <umberto.straccia@isti.cnr.it>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:39:10 +0200
- To: public-xg-urw3@w3.org
On Jul 25, 2007, at 1:09 PM, Peter Vojtáš wrote: > Example is nice, but I would stress to use web examples, even if it > is in an article on the web, somebody says ...XY...is tall, but he/ > she does not claim tall:0.7, we have to tend to more realistic web- > examples (e.g. in our use cases). I agree it depends on the > society, circumstances,.... are we going to model also these? Peter > > Here a pretty Semantic Web oriented query example: QUERY:= "I'm would like to buy a second hand compact car, my budged id around $15000 and it shouldn't have more than approximately 30000 kilometers, preferably with air conditioning and airbag, dark color and available in the Vancouver (Canada) downtown area." How may represent this information need in OWL like, RDF like or Rule (RIF/RuleML/SWRL) like languages ? -Umberto Straccia > Please note my changed address Peter.Vojtas@mff.cuni.cz > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ken Laskey [mailto:klaskey@mitre.org] > To: Peter.Vojtas@mff.cuni.cz > Cc: Kathryn Blackmond Laskey [mailto:klaskey@gmu.edu], public-xg- > urw3@w3.org, Umberto Straccia [mailto:umberto.straccia@isti.cnr.it] > Subject: Re: [URW3 public] OWL extensions [was Re: [URW3] ... > three questions based on the last telecon] > > >> Peter, >> >> We would always like to have "exact" information, but any measurement >> has a degree of inexactness/uncertainty based purely on the >> preciseness >> of the measuring instrument. At a crime scene, a suspect may be >> described as tall but the accuracy depends on what the observer >> considers tall, the vantage point from which the observer saw the >> suspect, and whether the suspect was wearing shoes with heels. Also, >> was the suspect tall in the context of a society where the average >> height is 162 cm or 175 cm? Making use of the fact that the suspect >> was "tall" requires many assumptions, most of which are implied in >> conversation but never explicitly stated. >> >> What does this tell us about what needs to be represented in terms of >> uncertainty? >> >> Ken >> >> On Jul 24, 2007, at 9:29 AM, Peter Vojtáš wrote: >> >>> >>> I personaly would prefer to know the exact height of John and decide >>> on my background and intention whether he is or not tall. >>> So I am afraid that I do not understand where such an >>> information >>> can appear >>> Peter >>> >>> >>> Please note my changed address Peter.Vojtas@mff.cuni.cz >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: Kathryn Blackmond Laskey [mailto:klaskey@gmu.edu] >>> To: Umberto Straccia [mailto:umberto.straccia@isti.cnr.it], >>> public-xg-urw3@w3.org >>> Subject: Re: [URW3 public] OWL extensions [was Re: [URW3] ... three >>> questions based on the last telecon] >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>> .... you can extend the language and the inference mechanism or >>>>>> express and process the uncertainty within the standard language. >>>>>> >>>>>> tall(John) : 0.7 >>>>>> >>>>>> vs >>>>>> >>>>>> tall(John, 0.7) >>>>>> >>>>>> (... in both cases, without saying what 0.7 represents) >>>> >>>> Independent of which way we go on tall(John) : 0.7 or tall(John, >>>> 0.7), >>>> it will not be enough just to annotate sentences with a number >>>> expressing some degree of certainty or plausibility or >>>> membership or >>>> whatever. To do probabilistic reasoning, we need to be able to >>>> make >>>> conditional independence statements, and to express conditional >>>> probabilities. To do probability tractably depends on >>>> representations >>>> composed out of local modules, and these local modules are >>>> parameterized by conditional probabilities, not absolute >>>> probabilities. >>>> >>>> K >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> ----- >> Ken Laskey >> MITRE Corporation, M/S H305 phone: 703-983-7934 >> 7151 Colshire Drive fax: 703-983-1379 >> McLean VA 22102-7508 >> >>
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