I agree, Hassan. (01)
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>From: ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontolog-forum-
>bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hassan Aït-Kaci
>Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 10:28 AM
>To: ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] doing standards [was - Re: Webby objects]
>
>Hello,
>
>All this discussion on meaningful vs. meaningless labels in an
>ontologies brought back to me the memory of a paper I wrote back in 1982
>[!] while a grad student at Penn describing an experiment on what sense
>a human user is able to make out of an ontology using English labels as
>opposed to to dummy labels.
>
>What I used then to represent the ontology was Ron Brachman's KL-One and
>the domain was the description of a Production-Distribution-Inventory
>optimization system. Subjects (all unfamiliar with the domain) were
>asked to answer questions regarding the ontology (half of the experiment
>subjects were presented with meaningfully named nodes, and half with
>dummy-labeled nodes).
>
>The conclusion of the experiment was, to quote part of my paper's
>conclusion, that "when entities bear English names, natural language
>productions are more compact, more "natural", and syntactically more
>elegant." Descriptions given by the subjects seeing only dummy-labels
>were verbose, and tended to carry no clear meaning, even with a clearly
>detailed ontological structure.
>
>Here's the paper:
>http://www.hassan-ait-kaci.net/pdf/Describing-Knowledge-from-Semantic-
>Networks.pdf
>
>Cheers,
>
>-hak
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