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Re: [ontolog-forum] language ambiguity (was: Axiomatic ontology)

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From: paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:46:53 +0700
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Thanks Matthew
sounds like simple rules then? how does the system know if a word is a
proper name though, does it use an ontology or taxonomy as a
reference, I ll look into it    (01)

p    (02)


On 2/14/08, matthew.west@xxxxxxxxx <matthew.west@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Paola,
>
> > >if you consider this sort of thing to be a tool for computer
> > > assisted ontology development, then it can be very helpful,
> > particularly
> > > where we are talking about extracting brute facts. However,
> > if you are
> > > talking about more general ontology extraction, then of
> > course the ontolgoy
> > > produced is going to be no better than that of the document
> > considered, and
> > > there are the usual issues with ambiguity that computers
> > usually struggle
> > > with, especially using words with different senses in close
> > proximity.
> > >
> >
> > I  agree, and think that such functionality can be useful to aid
> > concept extraction for further refinement. How does the system
> > identify the classes, objects and relations I dont understand, do they
> > have to be in RDF? Or how does it do it? (haven't read the
> > documentation)
>
> MW: What I have seen is a kind of NLP parsing, so nouns are classes,
> proper names are individuals, spotting patterns for names of people,
> addresses, and company names, dates, and then understanding the patterns
> around certain key words, so when you see something like:
> "Shell bought XYZ co from ABC Corp on July 17th 2006"
> it can create the appropriate records of the activity, when it happened
> and who the parties were involved.
>
> Regards
>
> Matthew West
> Reference Data Architecture and Standards Manager
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> >
> >
> > Paola Di Maio
> >
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