Yes, Guo was aware of Ogden's list and used it as part of his project to
find the minimum set of words required to define everything else. But he
wound up with almost twice as many basic words as Ogden had. (01)
Pat (02)
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> Ontologies
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> There was also C.K.Ogden's Basic English, published in 1933
> that was composed of 850 words. There was also a version that
> included an additional 100 words. His system also permitted the
> use of technical vocabularies per domain. The Bible has been
> translated to Basic English.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English
>
> Which raises an interesting point about how Ogden arrived at his
> list of words. He argued that the list must be usable for everyday
> work and life. Essentially, he was referring to the quantization
> problem. You won't necessarily get the word "birthday" if you only
> look at what people are doing for a few days. Is there a role for
> cluster analysis or quantization in the development of ontologies?
>
> I also wonder about the work being done at Renaissance Technology
> with the use of the Chern-Simons algorithms used to extract patterns
> from stream data. although I don't understand it, it seems to work
> and Renaissance made $2.5B last year running a hedge fund with this
> approach. Would it have a use in developing ontologies from
> graph weight data?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chern-Simons_theory
>
> Have a great weekend all. Put some more shrimps on the barbie!!
>
> -John Bottoms
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