RE: Examples of OWL used for datatype inferencing?

At 09:45 06/11/03 +0000, Ian Horrocks wrote:
> > > On Behalf Of Ian Horrocks
> > > Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 5:44 AM
> > > To: Graham Klyne
> > > Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
> > > Subject: Re: Examples of OWL used for datatype inferencing?
> > >
> > >
> > > OWL's datatype support is currently fairly rudimentry and does not
> > > include any means of expressing the kinds of knowledge you
> > > describe. One way to do so, while still maintaining decidability (for
> > > OWL DL at least) would be to extend the language with n-ary datatype
> > > predicates (see, e.g., [1]). Another way would be to include
> > > arithmetic built-ins in an expressive extension such as horn rules
> > > (see, e.g., [2]), but this would almost certainly make the language
> > > undecidable.
> > >
> > > Ian
> > >
> > > [1]
> > >
> > http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~horrocks/Publications/download/2003/PaHo03a.pdf
> > > [2] http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~horrocks/DAML/Rules/

FWIW, I've decided to try an approach based (loosely) on your [1].  My 
design notes at:

   http://www.ninebynine.org/RDFNotes/RDF-Datatype-inference.html

Thanks for the pointers.

#g


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