FYI. (01)
For a *completely* different take on "measuring semantic distance",
see ieml.org , and click on "Dictionnaire". Although it may not be
obvious at that website, what Pierre Lévy (Canada Chair for Collective
Intelligence, U. of Ottawa) has done there is to propose an address
space within which every kind of human transaction (political,
spiritual, literary, etc ...) has a unique and well-grounded address.
The fact that all addresses are expressed in terms of two dialectics,
one with three poles and one with two poles, is what makes the
distances in the space "measurable". (Although the multiple possible
approaches to the making of actual measurements based on these poles
is an area of ongoing research.) It's not yet completely clear to me
how the grounding actually happens, but I'm convinced that it's
happening in at least *some* minds. (02)
Regardless of whether it actually "works" in some particular sense or
another, it's one of the most intriguing things I've seen. For
example, it has forced me to question my long-held conviction that
there's no comprehensive way to categorize relationships, hyperlinks,
etc. Lévy's approach implicitly discards everything that's outside
the human frame of reference (as if he were acting on the converse of
Montaigne's observation that "nothing human was alien to him"), and
explicitly says that, at least *within* the human frame of reference,
everything is touched, in a knowable, groundable fashion, by his two
dialectics. (03)
"Adrian Walker" <adriandwalker@xxxxxxxxx> writes: (04)
> You wrote...
>
> The lack of capability of computing the distance between two
> words/phrases/ideas still cripples all current semantic tools.
>
> The replacement for ontology will possess, as its major
> term/characteristic, the ability to compute semantic distances.
>
> I'd be interested in your thoughts please about the semantic distance
> proposal in [1].
>
> The basic idea is that, in walking an abstraction hierarchy up from A and
> back down to B, the semantic distance is measured by ambiguity, that is, the
> number of wrong turns you could make along the way.
>
> Thanks! -- Adrian
>
> [1]
>
>www.reengineeringllc.com/Internet_Business_Logic_and_Semantic_Web_Presentation.pdf,
> slides 40-50
>
> Internet Business Logic (R)
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>
>
> On 2/8/07, Mike Brenner <mikeb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Bob Smith wrote:
> > > Is this all about the old topic called "Semantic Distance" we played
> > > with in the late 1960's and early 1970's, but now with a better GIS-OGC
> > > sense of "Distance"?
> >
> >
> > The lack of capability of computing the distance between two
> > words/phrases/ideas still cripples all current semantic tools.
> >
> > The replacement for ontology will possess, as its major
> > term/characteristic, the ability to compute semantic distances.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
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