Re: [ontolog-forum] Need advice - Request a quick opinion on ontology la

[Duane Nickull <dnickull@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was explaining this thread to someone and came up with an epiphany (for myself anyways).  It seems that the context of usage is a large portion of the pragmatic aspects of any given symbol or term.  Within this forum for example, I would always bet money that AI means artificial intelligence whereas in another context I might put more weight to a different hypothesis.

This seems really obvious WRT the specific example yet I wonder how a less intuitive context relationship might be expressed or captured as a mathematical model.  Does anyone know of any work (other than the UN/CEFACT Core Components) that uses context as a large part of a reasoning process and has expressed such using some standardized mathematical notation?

Duane

On 6/1/11 9:35 PM, "Alex Shkotin" <alex.shkotin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just to save AI abbreviation we may keep in mind 
> Algorithmic Intelligence
> ;-)
> As an example of non computable but well defined function we have
> the busy beaver function Σ of Tibor Radó [1].
> Just to show a limitation of AI in maths at least.
>
> 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver
>
> 2011/6/1 John F. Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > On 5/31/2011 11:26 PM, Alex Shkotin wrote:
> > > I don't like Computer Science term at all ;-)
> > > But a term to survive and spread the minds should be attractive.
> >
> > The point I was making is that the "wisdom of the crowds" is usually
> > better than the opinions of most so-called "experts".
> >
> > In the 1950s, two common terms were 'machine intelligence' (MI)
> > and 'artificial intelligence' (AI).  When I first heard of AI, I
> > thought it was flaky, and I don't blame anybody for criticizing it.
> >
> > But over time, 'AI' was widely accepted, and no other term was more
> > descriptive.  Since 'AI' has become the commonly accepted term, it
> > would be misleading and counterproductive to invent a new one.
> >
> > Re computer science:  Dijkstra made the observation that a more
> > descriptive term would be 'computing science'.  In a technical
> > sense, that's true.
> >
> > But in English, a Noun-Noun phrase simply means that Noun1 has
> > some relationship to Noun2 that modifies or restricts its meaning.
> > For that reason, 'computer science' is acceptable.  In fact, it
> > is widely accepted.  There is no reason to change it.
> >
> > The Europeans coined the word 'informatics', but one could object
> > that it mixes Latin and Greek roots.  The word 'cybernetics' uses
> > purely Greek roots, but it never became popular.
> >
> > Recommendation:  Poorly chosen terms naturally fall out of use,
> > and the consensus of common usage should be respected.
> >
> > John
> >
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