- From: $)CRichard Humpleman - SISA <richardh@sisa.samsung.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 17:23:50 -0800
- To: $)Cwww-rdf-interest@w3.org
http://snowball.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/xmlns/wordnet/noun/appliance http://snowball.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/xmlns/wordnet/noun/vcr http://snowball.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/xmlns/wordnet/noun/tv http://snowball.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/xmlns/wordnet/noun/television http://snowball.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/xmlns/wordnet/noun/television_tube http://snowball.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/xmlns/wordnet/noun/crt http://snowball.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/xmlns/wordnet/noun/software http://snowball.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/xmlns/wordnet/noun/fortran I tried the above and find a very little useful association between eg: -tv and television -televison tube (or crt) and television (or tv) -software and fortran I was expecting better eg: -vcr and tv to show as related electronic devices or appliances -television tube to show as an electronic part of the television -fortran to be under software -tv an alternative name for television (other than in comments) Maybe I was expecting too much? Richard Humpleman, SISA, Samsung Electronics, San Jose, CA. >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Dan Brickley [mailto:danbri@w3.org] >>> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 4:39 PM >>> To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org >>> Subject: RE: WordNet in RDF/XML: 50,000+ RDF class vocabulary... >>> >>> >>> On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Richard Humpleman - SISA wrote: >>> > This seems to have stopped working but it worked great >>> before. Any chance >>> > to get it going for a little while looonger? >>> > >>> > Reference to undeclared namespace prefix: 'r'. Line 14, >>> Position 51 >>> > <Class r:about="http://xmlns.com/wordnet/1.6/cat >>> >>> Ooops, thanks. I've fixed it. >>> >>> I had a number of comments about the unwieldy long URLs I >>> was using, and >>> the multiple levels of namespace management they depend >>> upon. So I moved >>> it to a http://xmlns.com/wordnet/1.6/* address instead, >>> which is a domain >>> explicitly committed to (eventual) persistence and >>> non-cheesiness. In >>> process, I broke the script and a bunch of URLs -- so much >>> for persistence! >>> >>> >>> Ideally, Princeton would host the canonical URL for WordNet >>> since they >>> manage the vocabulary. Failing that, I think there's a lot >>> to be gained by >>> agreeing within the RDF community a single namespace URI >>> for WordNet 1.6 >>> concepts. Using purl.org or something under desire.org are other >>> possibilities I've been toying with. >>> >>> <aside> >>> I have no personal desire to manage xmlns.com for all time so am >>> looking for ways of offloading the domain to a committee of >>> do-gooder >>> RDF/XML enthusiasts who want short reliable names for 'semantic web' >>> namespaces. Neither ILRT, University of Bristol nor W3C have any >>> commitment to maintaining names in that namespace. So - I'd >>> like to hand >>> off reponsibility for xmlns.com to some entity more reliable than >>> myself. Suggestions (in separate thread) welcomed :-) >>> </aside> >>> >>> Anyway, regarding WordNet I need to flag up a major issue: >>> my current demo >>> conflates 'word senses' with the words associated with >>> those senses. My >>> rather dusty knowledge of WordNet is that 'senses' are >>> clusters of broadly >>> equivalent terms, eg. as shown comma-separated here: >>> >>> > >>> tree >>> > >>> => woody plant, ligneous plant >>> > >>> => vascular plant, tracheophyte >>> > >>> => plant, flora, plant life >>> >>> So the sub-class relation is between clusters of terms. >>> This leaves us >>> with a dillema: do we assign URIs to senses, terms or both? >>> I'd expect >>> both, but with most classifications happening in terms of >>> senses. In which >>> case the question is -- what identifier is appropriate to >>> id a word sense? >>> >>> I'm hoping that someone more familiar with details of >>> WordNet will step >>> in and tell us how best to do this... Suggestions anyone? >>> >>> Dan >>> >>> > >>> > Regards, >>> > Richard Humpleman. -----cut-----
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