Re: [ontolog-forum] Fact Guru, Controlled NLs, and OOR

[Ron Wheeler <rwheeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 31/03/2011 11:22 AM, John F. Sowa wrote:
> Chris and Ron,
>
> CP
>> Is your point that "professional terminologists" avoid homonyms
>> in their 'controlled vocabularies' to help to ensure a one-many
>> relationship - and avoid many-many relationships?
> The explicit goal of a terminologist is to develop a controlled
> vocabulary for a subject that is clear and unambiguous for the
> experts on that subject.
>
> As Ed mentioned, ISO TC-37 is devoted to terminologies and controlled
> vocabularies.  Those terminologies reflect the consensus of the experts,
> and they are periodically revised and updated whenever any ambiguities
> or inaccuracies are found.
>
> A logician might find flaws in the statement of some definitions,
> but the experts in any field know what terms they need to express
> their knowledge.  Logicians are not domain experts, and they should
> defer to the experts for the choice of terms.
>
This is similar to what a good system analyst does.
Ask questions, look for inconsistencies in the answers, warn about 
problems in the SME's view of the universe and document the SME's 
understanding of the problem in a way that the SME can verify that the 
analyst understands what the SME has told him/her.
Over time an analyst can become a SME if they stay in one field long 
enough but as an analyst one has to be careful about assuming that you 
are a SME when you have only spent time talking to SME's not actually 
working in the field or taking formal training in the field.    (01)

> JFS
>>> ... 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.
> RW
>> One good thing about popular reality shows is that we now understand
>> how few people actually fit into that category.
> That's true.  If you browse through the majority of OWL ontologies
> on the WWW, you'll notice that they don't use any features beyond
> what Skuce's daughter used to describe Canadian animals.
>
> John
>
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