Dear Mike, (01)
One of the things we did in ISO 15926 was to distinguish logical
terms/concepts/meanings from their representation by words/lexical
terms/phrases, but treating the lexical terms as first class objects in the
ontology itself, rather than things outside it. (02)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontolog-forum-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Bennett
> Sent: 30 March 2011 16:50
> To: [ontolog-forum]
> Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Fact Guru, Controlled NLs, and OOR
>
> That does sound interesting. I had a sort of "Aha" moment last
> week when we were talking about synonyms and heteronyms at an OMG
> / EDM Council event. It struck me that an ontology has formal
> definitions of concepts with synonyms, whereas a terminology is a
> set of words, with one or more meanings per word, and therefore
> has heteronyms. That's why for instance we have no concept of
> heteronym in our ontology. Nor (for similar reasons) do we have
> homonyms.
>
> No doubt for most people that's this week's glimpse into the
> obvious, but it made things come clear for me - ontologies and
> terminologies are complementary but different, so any tool that
> formally relates one to the other has to be good.
>
> Mike
>
> On 30/03/2011 15:05, John F. Sowa wrote:
> > We have discussed the relationships between ontologies and
> terminologies
> > in many email threads. Some people blur the distinction by saying
> that
> > their terminologies are ontologies, and others make a sharp
> distinction
> > between them. But one point is clear: the people who use
> applications
> > only see terminologies, and the developers need to relate ontologies
> > to terminologies.
> >
> > A few weeks ago, I sent a note that mentioned Fact Guru by Doug Skuce
> > as tool that could help bridge the gap between terminologies and
> > ontologies. In particular, FG could simplify the task of mapping
> > the terms of an terminology to the more formal ontology. After the
> > development of the ontology, FG could be used to display either or
> > both, side by side. For the Open Ontology Repository, FG could be
> > useful, but only if the software were available as open source.
> >
> > Therefore, I had a discussion with Doug about the possibility of
> > releasing the Fact Guru software as open source under the LGPL.
> > Doug agreed, and he is also planning to attend the Ontology Summit
> > on April 18. He would be happy to discuss the use of FG with anyone
> > who may be interested. On the cc list above, I added the email for
> > Doug Skuce and for John Talbot, who did most of the implementation.
> >
> > In the links below, note the wide range of sophistication of the
> > possible applications. The Animals example was implemented by
> > Doug's 9-year-old daughter as a school project. The SUMO example
> > was downloaded from the actual SUMO ontology. For each term in
> > SUMO, FG shows both the English-like text and the axioms written
> > in KIF.
> >
> > John Sowa
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Fact Guru
> > Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:31:05 -0500
> > From: John F. Sowa<sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: [ontolog-forum]<ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Doug Skuce<drskuce@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > I was talking with an old friend, Doug Skuce, who taught AI and
> > knowledge engineering at the University of Ottawa for many years.
> > He and his students and colleagues have developed some software
> > that could be valuable for designing and supporting ontologies.
> >
> > In the late 80s he developed a knowledge acquisition tool called
> > CODE (Conceptually Oriented Development Environment) in Smalltalk.
> > Since CODE did not run on the web, he designed a new version called
> > Fact Guru in the late 90s. FG can be used to organize a knowledge
> > base of any kind and present it in a highly readable way;
> >
> > http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~tcl/factguru1/FactGuru.pdf
> >
> > Following is a blurb from the web site:
> >
> > With Fact Guru you can improve understanding by:
> >
> > * storing facts grouped by subject in a highly structured
> > knowledge base.
> >
> > * searching the knowledge base to find just the fact you need
> >
> > * comparing subjects to see a comparison matrix of differences
> >
> > * viewing subjects as a graph to see relationships between
> them
> >
> > For a beginner's example that uses only English, see the knowledge
> > base of Canadian Animals, which was implemented by Doug's nine year
> > old daughter. Click on any animal name to find a collection of
> > information about it:
> >
> > http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~tcl/factguru1/animals/index.html
> >
> > More important for ontology is the use of Fact Guru to import,
> > organize, and display the top-level ontology of SUMO:
> >
> > http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~tcl/factguru1/sumo/index.html
> >
> > For an example of a knowledge base about a technical subject,
> > see the Fact Guru KB about the Java programming language, which
> > Doug used for teaching a course on Java:
> >
> > http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~tcl/factguru1/java/index.html
> >
> > This KB is important for two reasons: (1) it is cross linked
> > to an associated HTML document about Java; and (2) it is written
> > in a version of controlled English called ClearTalk.
> >
> > Doug is currently working with some programmers who are
> > reimplementing Fact Guru with the Drupal content management
> > software in order to organize and relate multiple knowledge
> > bases. This could be useful for the Open Ontology Repository.
> >
> > I thought that participants in Ontolog Forum might express
> > their wish list about features that would be useful for
> > supporting ontologies and their applications.
> >
> > John Sowa
> >
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