- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:00:58 +0100
- To: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Cc: Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>, Peter Ansell <ansell.peter@gmail.com>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
(as an aside) Bijan Parsia wrote: > I remember also a project where we were trying to get people to write > simple triples. They got that they needed triples. But what they ended > up putting into the tool was things like > > S P O > "The cat is" "on the" "mat". > "Mary eats" "pudding" "on toast" > > They just split up the sentences into somewhat equal parts! I wonder how that experiment would work in other countries. US schooling seems to teach English grammar with something called "sentence graphing" or "sentence diagramming". Not something I encountered at all during my years of miseducation in the UK. But then we weren't taught much about grammar at school; it was out of fashion in the '80s here. Eg. http://www.geocities.com/gene_moutoux/basicdiagrams.htm http://www.utexas.edu/courses/langling/e360k/handouts/diagrams/diagram_basics/basics.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_diagram Anyways, I'm not one to claim that there's an obvious triple representation of most states of affairs. What would be nice would be to have more tooling and services that helped people understand which triple representations were fashionable in terms of useful systems producing and consuming them. cheers, Dan -- http://danbri.org/
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