- From: Daniel Harris <daniel@kendra.org.uk>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 13:30:26 +0100
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
On May 16, 2005, at 1:55 pm, Linda wrote: > How can we overcome the difference of extentions? What are we going to > do with polysemous words? If anybody can give me some information or a > link to a related article, I will appreciate it a lot. I don't believe there is a problem here - at least not an insurmountable one. The point is not to view 'words' (or indeed any 'extentions', information or metadata) as standalone entities with fixed meaning (surely, everything is just a matter of opinion after all). They all have context. The meaning of anything is defined by its relationship to everything else. We have to start with the basic (safe) premise that no two people think alike. Therefore, the word 'cat' may mean two completely different things to two different people. There may be a specific agreed relationship between these two peoples' understanding of 'cat' as in: 'when John says cat he means the same thing as when Jane says cat'. If there isn't a specific relationship then we could use fuzzy guesswork to try and figure out what people actually mean based on a general consensus or something. Both cases are valid depending on your desired outcome. That's just my opinion... Cheers Daniel
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