John,
I was using the example to discuss a one-many / many-many question - not to
illustrate what might appear in a terminology. (Maybe the header needs
changing?)
Is your point is that "professional terminologists" avoid homonyms in their
'controlled vocabularies' to help to ensure a one-many relationship - and
avoid many-many relationships? (01)
Regards,
Chris (02)
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> From: ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontolog-forum-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John F. Sowa
> Sent: 31 March 2011 14:27
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> Cc: Doug Skuce; John Talbot
> Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Fact Guru, Controlled NLs, and OOR
>
> On 3/31/2011 3:12 AM, Chris Partridge wrote:
> > One can regard a term, 'bank' as a type whose tokens are all its all
> > its utterances/inscriptions. In this case, the relationship is many to
> > many. Or, one can have a finer grained conception.
>
> Please note that when we are talking about terminologies, we are
> *not* talking about unrestricted natural language. Another term for such
lists is
> 'controlled vocabulary', which is the first step toward a controlled NL --
or an
> ontology.
>
> Professional terminologists have had many years of training in
lexicography and
> applied linguistics. Their terminologies may contain single words like
'hydrogen',
> but they will never contain a single word like 'bank'. For such things,
they'll use
> multi-word phrases, such as 'savings bank', 'investment bank', 'credit
union', or
> some supertype, such as 'financial institution'.
>
> Fact Guru has also been used by SMEs who are not professional
terminologists.
> One example is the classification of Canadian animals, which was written
was
> Skuce's 9-year-old daughter. She used the terminology from a book _The
> Mammals of Canada_ and a web site of the Canadian Wildlife Service:
>
> http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~tcl/factguru1/animals/index.html
>
> For another example, see the Astronomy knowledge base, which was written
by
> John Talbot and illustrates more features of FG:
>
> http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~tcl/factguru1/astronomy/index.html
>
> The point I'm trying to make is that a good terminology has taken a
critical step
> away from the wild and woolly issues of unrestricted NLs.
>
> Furthermore, many well written textbooks and web sites developed by domain
> experts (e.g., _The Mammals of Canada_ and the web site for the Canadian
> Wildlife Service) are sufficiently accurate that anyone who is as smart as
a fifth
> grader can use a tool like FG.
>
> John
>
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