Pat, (01)
You've caught me out. I haven't been following Ontolog. Why are you
replying now to this early message from a long thread eight months
ago? (02)
Do you think it is relevant to something on Ontolog recently? What
caused you to suddenly bring it up again? (03)
Perhaps someone could give me a quick summary of what's been discussed
on Ontolog over the last eight months. (04)
Best, (05)
Rob (06)
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Pat Hayes <phayes@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Rob Freeman wrote:
>> Pat Hayes, and anyone else looking for ways to extract meaning from the Web.
>>
>> General meaningful classes are accessible by clustering words on their
>> context. Classes found in that way don't have names until you give
>> them names, and we have still have no way of reasoning with them
> Exactly. These are not classes in any sense useful for ontology
> engineering.
>> , but
>> basic meaningful classes can be found.
>>
>> See for instance Hinrich Schuetze's "Dimensions of Meaning":
>>
>> http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/23424.html.
>>
>> I don't see why it should not prove possible to reason with classes so
>> defined.
> You may be right. However, this paper was written in 1991, and AFAIK
> nobody in the intervening 17 years has yet come up with any way to
> perform such reasoning. Until someone does, I will not hold my breath.
>> I believe indeed that natural language can be thought of as a
>> formal system over such classes (a formal system as distinct from a
>> grammar.)
>>
> You may believe what you like, but the overwhelming empirical evidence
> suggests that natural language is not a formal system of any kind. But
> I would be delighted if you could prove this wrong, by demonstrating
> that it is indeed a formal system.
>
> Pat (07)
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