- From: Adrian Walker <adrianw@snet.net>
- Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:25:26 -0400
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Hi All -- Nice to find 33 posts about web proper names in my email this evening... (:-) I'm wondering if some of the debate is happening in the wrong framework. Sort of like the story of the drunk looking for his car keys under the street light because that's where he can see -- not where he dropped them, in the dark. A someone pointed out at the recent SICoP meeting, one of the words with the most flexible meaning that we use is, er, "meaning" . So, if we try to resolve the meaning of URIs within the framework of RDF, perhaps we are just looking in the wrong place. So, what's needed? I'd argue that our discussions about web proper names and URIs can never converge to something computationally useful, unless we broaden the frame of discussion to bring in natural language processing. In particular, a solid way of computationally linking RDF and English, in both directions, would do the trick. Unfortunately, full natural language processing is a deep (and fascinating) ongoing research area in its own right, so something simpler is needed if the "web proper names" debate is to converge in this decade. However, there is a rather lightweight, pragmatic method of making the computational RDF <--> English link. The latest arguments for this are at [1]. So, this is clearly from left field when put alongside the web proper names posts so far. But does it help? I hope so... Cheers, -- Adrian [1] http://colab.cim3.net/file/work/Expedition_Workshop/2004-09-14_iMfgWorkshop/Walker_20040914.PPT or http://www.reengineeringllc.com/Internet_Business_Logic_e-Government_Presentation.pdf INTERNET BUSINESS LOGIC (R) www.reengineeringllc.com Dr. Adrian Walker Reengineering LLC 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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