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From: | Adrian Walker <adriandwalker@xxxxxxxxx> |
Date: | Wed, 5 Dec 2012 11:05:00 -0500 |
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Hi John & All, On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 10:29 AM, John F Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes, and every natural language query system since has suffered more or less from the same problem -- unmaintainable, particularly given the rate of change of English usage. The only exception I know about is [1], which makes some trade offs to allow end-authors and users freedom to use their own words and phrases when specifying knowledge. There's no dictionary, and no grammar of English, yet the practical semantics "just work". Sceptics are cordially invited to run the examples provided, and to write and run their own examples, by pointing a browser to the site. For the onto-philosophically inclined, there's a challenge to Chomsky tucked away in this. -- Adrian [1] Internet Business Logic A Wiki and SOA Endpoint for Executable Open Vocabulary English Q/A over SQL and RDF Online at www.reengineeringllc.com Shared use is free, and there are no advertisements Adrian Walker Reengineering _________________________________________________________________ Message Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/ Config Subscr: http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/ontolog-forum/ Unsubscribe: mailto:ontolog-forum-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Shared Files: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/ Community Wiki: http://ontolog.cim3.net/wiki/ To join: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid1J (01) |
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