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[ontolog-dev] Re: SUO KIF testing

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From: Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:32:20 -0800
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Adam Pease wrote Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:28:05 -0800:
 > Hi Peter,    (01)

 >   Many thanks for doing this.  Is the code Java?  If so, we could
 > include it in Sigma as a call from the Diagnostics.jsp page. 
I'll look
 > at the report and see what needs to be addressed.    (02)

 > Adam
---    (03)


 > At 07:58 AM 3/10/2005, Peter Denno wrote:    (04)

 >> Adam, et al.,    (05)

 >> I wrote a small tool to check a few aspects of the 'structural
 >> integrity' of
 >> ontologies written in SUO KIF. The attached file is the 
output against
 >> SUMO
 >> 1.72. The tool is not well tested (it's a day's work) but I 
thought that
 >> getting this out there might start a dialog to improve it. 
(For that
 >> matter,
 >> I was looking for the correct forum for this dialog. Ontolog 
might not
 >> be it,
 >> but scanning old email I couldn't think who else to send it to!).    (06)

 >> Regarding what the tool reports, there are several reports 
under the
 >> test:    (07)

 >>  *** Test: ?x in (domain <Relation> <num> ?x) isn't one of 
the other
 >> classes
 >> that are in the disjointDecomposition of Abstract.    (08)

 >> This concerns, as we have discussed, the problems of the axioms:    (09)

 >> (disjointDecomposition Abstract Quantity Attribute SetOrClass 
Relation
 >> Proposition)    (010)

 >> (domain domain 3 SetOrClass)    (011)

 >> The test reports only those instances where the 
disjointDecomposition is
 >> violated. There are plenty more situations where something 
other than an
 >> Abstract (e.g. Agent) is used in (domain domain 3...). I 
suppose that
 >> what is
 >> intended in those situations is "SetORClass of"  (e.g. (domain
 >> experiencer 2
 >> Agent) means "SetOrClass of Agent") ... but that seems like an
 >> extra-theoretical interpretation.    (012)

 >> --
 >> Best Regards,
 >> - Peter    (013)

 >> Peter Denno
 >> National Institute of Standards and Technology,
 >> Manufacturing System Integration Division,
 >> 100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 8264             Tel: +1 301-975-3595
 >> Gaithersburg, MD, USA 20899-8264          FAX: +1 301-975-4694
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