Hello David, (01)
the way I see it is: The Semantic Web has semantics that is readable only
by humans (rdfs:label and rdfs:comment) and it has semantics that is also
readable by machines (axioms). The problem is that the second form of
semantics does not scale yet. So yes, sooner or later a human has to
apply their eyeballs, brain & contextual experience (= make sense of it). (02)
Regards, (03)
Michael Brunnbauer (04)
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 09:53:50AM -0500, David Eddy wrote:
> John -
>
> On Nov 29, 2013, at 9:00 AM, John F Sowa wrote:
>
> > Those are two uses of metalanguage -- and a metalanguage is Yet Another
> > Language (YAL). Every YAL needs semantics.
>
>
> As I'm sure you can tell, I'm not intimately immersed in the details of RDF,
>OWL, etc. Objective-C is my legacy language of the day.
>
>
> As far as I've been able to discern after 5+ years of wonderful MIT
>SemanticWeb meetings, the dirty little secret of the SemanticWeb is there's no
>semantics.
>
> Or?said slightly differently?the SemanticWeb has put some new, implicit spin
>on the meaning of "semantic."
>
> Or... SemWeb is no more semantic than any other software language.
>
> Sooner or later someONE (that's a carbon based life form, not silicon) will
>have to apply their eyeballs, brain & contextual experience to the fact that
>in one context YAL is John Sowa's "yet another language" and in another
>context YAL means "yttrium aluminum laser."
>
> If SemWeb is good at solving that?as far as I can see unavoidable?contextual
>issue, I've yet to see it.
>
>
> Could simply be I drove an 029 for too long.
>
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