- From: Jos De_Roo <jos.deroo.jd@belgium.agfa.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 03:31:20 +0200
- To: "Jonathan Borden" <jonathan@openhealth.org>
- Cc: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>, phayes@ai.uwf.edu, www-webont-wg@w3.org
[...] > > and I think it is quite natural to explicitly give > > :C owl:intersectionOf ( :Student :Employee ) . > > > > as a premis, no? > > > > An advantage of entailing a class that isn't a premise (i.e. isn't already > named) is that the classifier might 'find' classes that naturally exist but > haven't been explicitly labelled. This might be useful, for example, in the > case where a cluster of symptoms, findings etc. indicate a brand new > disease. The advantage of not requiring the disease to be already > known/named is that given a knowledge base, an OWL classifier might > otherwise be able to discover new facts. This could be a big benefit, I > imagine. Jonathan, this is very interesting, really; thanks Of course it sounds like induction, but anyhow I will have a very hard thought about that and I feel that we can work it out ;-) -- , Jos De Roo, AGFA http://www.agfa.com/w3c/jdroo/
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