On 7/9/12 2:16 AM, John F Sowa wrote:
> On 7/8/2012 4:43 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>> I think we call all use the URI as a common foundation for broad
>> agreement re. data access, integration, and representation :-)
> The big advance was the instant, universal, world-wide availability
> of data everywhere. (01)
Yes. (02)
> But there's nothing new about having universal
> identifiers. (03)
I agree.
> We've had universal identifiers for chemical compounds
> and postal addresses for over a century. (04)
Yes, we do, not in dispute. (05)
> Social-security numbers
> for people aren't new. ISBN numbers for books have been around
> for a while. Every major profession and business designed universal
> identifiers for their subject matter. (06)
Ditto. (07)
>
> But word senses are still a research area. Professional
> lexicographers have no clue about how to agree on a universal
> set of word senses. Every dictionary has a different selection. (08)
Yes. (09)
>
> Note the following article by Adam Kilgarriff, who has done
> a great deal of R & D on processing large corpora of documents:
>
> http://arxiv.org/pdf/cmp-lg/9712006.pdf
> "I don't believe in word senses"
>
> He's not the only one. The linguist Alan Cruse coined the term
> 'microsense' for the fine distinctions of meaning in each context.
> I talk about that in slides 12 to 20 of the following:
>
> http://www.jfsowa.com/talks/dynolang.pdf
>
> For all practical purposes, Kilgarriff's doubts about word senses
> are equivalent to Cruse's claim that there are infinitely many. (010)
Yes. (011)
>
> Note that Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft abandoned URIs. (012)
If that's true, they are making a *serious mistake*. Basically, they are
veering away from the point you made earlier: "The big advance was the
instant, universal, world-wide availability of data everywhere." (013)
URIs, as per TimBL's Linked Data meme, really provide super keys for
data objects that operate at InterWeb-scale. (014)
Beyond data access, they are also missing the opportunity to leverage
inverse functional property semantics which is a powerful data
integration mechanism (re. co-references derived from reasoning) that
Linked Data showcases today. (015)
> For their
> schema.org, they just use ordinary character strings that look
> a lot like ordinary words and word phrases:
>
> http://www.schema.org/docs/full.html
>
> If I had to choose between the W3C vs Kilgarriff, Cruse, Google,
> Yahoo, and Microsoft, I would not hesitate in making my bet. (016)
I never bet against the power and ingenuity inherent in URIs. That's
something I'll never do in the realm of data access, integration, and
management. (017)
Links: (018)
1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWDPhEvKuRY&feature=player_detailpage#t=499s
-- Ted Nelson acknowledging virtues of URIs
2. http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/#InverseFunctionalProperty-def --
owl:inverseFunctionalProperty
3. http://bit.ly/MaKRBU -- list of inverseFunctionalProperty entity
types from the LOD cloud cache we maintain . (019)
>
> John
>
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