- 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
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