- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:34:14 -0500
- To: "John F. Sowa" <sowa@bestweb.net>
- Cc: leo <leo@mgn.ru>, Azamat <abdoul@cytanet.com.cy>, semantic-web@w3.org, Frank Manola <fmanola@acm.org>, "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
* John F. Sowa <sowa@bestweb.net> [2006-03-26 08:21-0800] > > Azamat, Leonid, et al., > > I agree. > > AA> The hot polemics over the subject is likely caused by the > > fact that one determinant dimension of meaning has not received > > a due attention in the SW formal languages. Additionally to > > syntactic and semantic aspects, there is a pragmatical meaning > > involving an agent's mental states and communicative acts > > (speech events in a certain speech situation, or context). > > RDF and OWL are legacy systems that must be supported, but > semantics, pragmatics, and ontology are where the action is. > RDF and OWL are too limited, clumsy, and inefficient to support > any serious work in knowledge representation and reasoning. > An enormous amount of effort in the SemWeb literature addresses > workarounds for getting up to the level where AI was in the 1980s. > > My recommendation is to import anything in those languages into > Common Logic and do the real work with CL-based languages. Sounds good to me. Where can I down load a Common Logic database to play with? I've a few legacy files I'd like to import... cheers, Dan
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