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From: "doug foxvog" <doug@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:36:20 -0400 (EDT)
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On Sat, March 12, 2011 15:50, FERENC KOVACS said:
> JS: That ambiguity is not "inherent" in NLs,
> but it is the result of using NLs by an open-ended community of
> people with different backgrounds, needs, interests, and goals.
>
> FK This fact is represented in connections called relations - other tah
> Boolean, or algeraic.
> So the real problem is to find a common denominator for making domain
> ontologies
> interoperable. The job has to be started from top down, provided that the
> conceptualisation is correct. Looking at SUMO and the Italian profesors
> slides I maintain that the model is bleeding.    (01)


> JS: I do not believe that a broad-coverage detailed ontology of everything
> is possible or desirable.    (02)

> FK You need not have to have a broad-coverage detailed ontolopgy of
> eevrything -    (03)

You both agree.    (04)

> if you do not stick to the way your semantic primitives, i.e the concept
> of objects, properties and relations are used to make up a model with
> non semantic primitives (including events, situations etc.!!).    (05)

Events and situations would be semantic primitives.    (06)

> Among other things it is not clear for a great many people
> that there are three different variables that all have independent lives
> to be synchronised and regularly updated, namely the objects themselves,    (07)

You mean the objects within the ontology, here, right?    (08)

> the names of such objects (the sign, token, denotator paradgims)    (09)

I note that these names are names of parts of the ontology, not
names of the things they refer to.  Such names could be simple
within the ontology, but when referenced from elsewhere would
appropriately be URIs.  In many languages, they could be referenced
by a namespace identifier followed by a name local to the ontology.    (010)

Note that such names need not be similar to natural language words.
snwmd:362183003 would be an acceptable name for the entire left lobe
of the liver.    (011)

An ontology should have mappings to one or more text strings which
may represent the intended meaning of the thing represented by each
object in the ontology as well as a comment that clearly describes
that intended meaning.    (012)

> and teh concepts of objects that are in the mind of the poeple    (013)

Certainly, the concepts that are in peoples minds are different from
the objects in the ontologies, and the names of those objects.  All
of these are different from both the objects (or types) that those
concepts refer to and the names used in various languages and jargons
to refer to the referents.    (014)

> -
> naturally all different. So what you have in addition to those three is
> the name of the concepts and the properties of the objects that are
> referred to by that name (sign) and by that concept.    (015)

Sure.  It is important to distinguish these things:
* Object in ontology
* Name of object in ontology
  + local name
  + global name (including name of ontology)
* Thing meant by the ontology object
* NL names of thing meant by ontology object
* Concept in people's minds of the thing meant by ontology object
  + Often there would be no need to model this in an ontology    (016)

Note that properties of things modeled in ontologies should themselves
be modeled by objects in the ontology.  These ontology objects would
be predicates in the ontology as opposed to the class and individual
objects.  These predicate objects would be named within the ontology
and should be mapped to NL words or phrases which indicate the
relation.    (017)

> Unless you do not have a system or model to align
> your different concpets in your different frame of mind through a
> common notation for the same objects (identity) through
> the use of the same wording and the same phsical object reference
> (timespace) also tied together, you suck    (018)

I think you mean "you're stuck", here.    (019)

Mappings would be needed among the ontology objects, referred to by
their names (within the ontology) and NL names for the objects.  I'm
not sure what else you are referring to here.  Are you referring to
mapping between terms in different ontologies?  Are you referring to
establishing a mapping between an ontology term and an object in the
physical world (instead of merely to its referent in the ontology)?    (020)

-- doug    (021)

> Regards,
> Ferenc
> "our attention becomes structured by external demands. In more intimate
> encounters, the level of both challenges and skills can grow very high.
> Thus,
> interactions have many of the characteristics of flow activities, and they
> certainly require the orderly investment of mental energy. The strong
> effects of
>
> companionship on the quality of experience suggest that investing energy
> in
> relationships is a good way to improve life." Mihály
> 
>Csíkszentmihályi"http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199707/finding-flow?page=3
>
>
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