- From: Adrian Walker <adrianw@snet.net>
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:24:03 -0500
- To: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Cc: semantic-web@w3.org, "Hans Teijgeler" <hans.teijgeler@quicknet.nl>
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 Internet Business Logic (R) Executable open vocabulary English Online at reengineeringllc.com Shared use is free Adrian Walker Reengineering PO Box 1412 Bristol CT 06011-1412 USA Phone: USA 860 583 9677 Cell: USA 860 830 2085 Fax: USA 860 314 1029
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