Re: OWL Web Ontology Language

Peter --

In reply to Hans, you wrote...

"Well, again, just what do you mean here?  Does Ford manufacture the class of
Mustangs?  Does Ford manufacture some Mustangs?  Does Ford manufacture all
Mustangs?  Does Ford necessarily manufacture all Mustangs?

What you probably want to say is something like

Class(Manufacturer partial)
Individual(Ford type(Manufacturer))

ObjectProperty(manufactured-by Functional)

Class(Car partial)

Class(Mustang partial Car restriction(manufactured-by someValuesFrom(Ford)))"


No argument with that, since you are the expert.

But consider the following scenario.  I'm in a team of 20 programmers 
writing an application that uses an ontology containing the above 
fragment.  How do I know which of many possible plain English meanings is 
intended?  It seems I have to call up an expert to help me.  But if I call 
two experts, I'll probably get different English glosses.  So, I'll just 
program something and hope for the best.

To put it another way, it seems that a lot of meaning is still 
missing.  What do you think?

                                        Cheers,    -- Adrian


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Received on Thursday, 16 March 2006 22:24:32 UTC