Monday, December 12, 2005
A common, widely used, and available ontology
with UDEF (Universal Date Element Framework)
underneath
Note from Adam (one of the developers of SUMO)
Paul,
I noticed that you are referencing SUMO, but it appears you are only using the OWL version. Please note that most of SUMO is lost when translating to OWL, and that the OWL version of SUMO is also quite old. The latest files are at http://www.ontologyportal.org
I also noticed your reference to context. This is a difficult area, and OWL simply lacks the representational facilities to handle a context logic, or the formal axioms that might even provide elements of context handling within rules.
Adam
Discussion …
I have looked at http://www.ontologyportal.org/ as part of my review of what
the ONTAG working group was talking about.
You-all’s work is very nice, in my opinion… and should be the starting
point for a future development that I am proposing. See à [294] I can see that it is serious work.
I noticed, a while back, the linkage between
SUMO and WordNet and I understand how significant that this is.. given that it
is a starting point for a more common use of ontologies and controlled
vocabularies (which are not really “controlled”), as you know. Natural language evolves.
How would you describe a context logic? (The answer is partially given in the
paper
“Practical Semiotics: A Formal Theory”
(link to be found)
a recent paper is excellent
http://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0505/0505081.pdf
Can you give reading list so that I can read
and post here? We, others, would like
to anticipate where the SUMO work is going.
The best quick look at what I am proposing
comes from the Soviet era “quasi axiomatic theory”, and refined by myself and
Peter Kugler in 1997. see (chapter on situational logic).
I wonder if you might weigh in on the
discussion about separating the logic in an ontology from the pure concepts –
how this might be done and what are the trade-offs.
Paul Prueitt
Taos Institute