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Re: [ontolog-forum] Wordnet Representations - XSD/RDF/OWL

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From: "Michael Daconta" <mdaconta@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:38:27 -0700
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Hi Pat,    (01)

Sorry for the confusion, I meant "we" as those people in the
DoD Taxonomy Focus group.  Not the ontology members.    (02)

Hope that clears it up,    (03)

  - Mike    (04)

Patrick Cassidy wrote on 1/23/2004, 10:17 AM:    (05)

 > Mike:
 >    Concerning your suggestion:
 >
 > Michael Daconta wrote:
 > > Hi Everyone,
 > >
 > > Note: for those also subscribed to rdf-interest, I apologize for the
 > > cross-post.
 > >
 > > As part of a taxonomy framework, we will be linking taxonomies
 > lexically
 > > by requiring each term to be mapped to a WordNet synonym or synset.
 > >
 >      If by "we" [white man ;-)] you mean the Ontolog group,
 > I would be careful that we don't get sidetracked by
 > the need to 'dog' each concept we define in the WordNet
 > database.  Some of the concepts we need will be rather
 > technical, and may well not exist in WordNet.
 >    Nothing wrong with trying to find a mapping to WordNet,
 > as long as we don't strain to make round pegs fit into
 > square holes.  I'm not sure that there is any value
 > in WordNet mappings for the Invoice ontology at this point.
 > Wordnet has its own philosophy, not necessarily aligned
 > with ours.  WordNet is used a lot in NLP experimentation,
 > but is not close to being a standard.
 >
 >     Pat
 >
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Michael C. Daconta
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www.daconta.net    (07)

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