Re: [ontolog-forum] LInked Data meme revisited

[Doug McDavid <dougmcdavid@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kingsley -- Others have said this in different ways, but I want to respond to your statement that a term constitutes "a specialization of word" by adding:  a term can consist of multiple words.  A term can consist of multiple words.  Or maybe best identified as a "lexical unit" as defined in Cruse, 1986.

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 5:17 AM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 12/13/13 7:31 AM, Axel Polleres wrote:

FWIW, I might be missing the point in this whole discussion, but:

On my part, I am trying to demystify Linked Data. Basically, I've always believed that its underlying principles can be explained in a variety of ways.

The stress of the usage of URIs to identify things in Linked Data is not about complete disambiguation.
In terms of modeling, just as in logics, the usage of structure (RDF) and named identifiers (URIs) shall restrict the number of possible interpretations… not more, not less; plus: the added value of URIs & HTTP enabling reuse and linkage and a certain degree of control of identifiers (since URIs have ownership through pay level domains). I think that's quite a good starting point.

Yes!

One good thing that's come out of this thread is the subtlety between "word" and "term" (a specialization of word) especially in relation to the TimBL's Linked Data meme [1]. Basically, in the context of RDF based Linked Data, HTTP URIs are *terms* i.e., they are words that combine denotation and reference [2][3].

As they say, "the devil's in the details" and this particular detail (methinks) is the basis for a lot of confusion.

[1] https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/posts/jkJGY5hRKgb -- Revisiting Linked Data principles.

[2] http://bit.ly/15tk1Au -- HTTP URI Duality Illustrated.

[3] http://www.wikihow.com/Differentiate-Between-a-Term-and-a-Word .


Kingsley

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On Dec 13, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Matthew West <dr.matthew.west@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dear Kingsley,
That’s much closer.
  On 12/11/13 8:39 AM, Matthew West wrote:
Dear Kingsley,
I think you are missing the point I am trying to make.
Words typically have multiple meanings, indeed just one meaning is rather
unusual.

I've been pondering the above, and having just digested the exchange between Ed. Barkmeyer and John Sowa [1][2], I realized that its highly probable that you meant:

"A term is (*in addition to being a word*) a point of reference, whereas a word is only a constituent of language. Hence, all terms are words, but only some words can be terms. A term *refers to* something, either *abstract* or *concrete*." [1] .
[MW>] A term may be more than one word, so “composition of physical object” and “composition of activity” are both terms that happen to be specializations of the term “composition” (in a particular sense of the word composition, so not a piece of music for instance).
So here the term “composition” in a defined context has one meaning, even though the word “composition” generally has many.
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The definition of "term" quoted above also maps nicely to the duality inherent in HTTP URIs -- when used a the mechanism for denoting anything, rather than Web documents solely.

I've tweaked my recent posts [4][5] accordingly.

Thanks!

Links:

[1] http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2013-12/msg00062.html -- Ed's reply to John
[2] http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2013-12/msg00060.html -- most recent comment to which Ed replied
[3] http://www.wikihow.com/Differentiate-Between-a-Term-and-a-Word
[4] https://plus.google.com/+KingsleyIdehen/posts/3LP8ALd8bQR -- G+ post about making Documents, Sentences, Words, and Terms webby
[5] https://plus.google.com/+KingsleyIdehen/posts/jkJGY5hRKgb -- initial Linked Data meme related post that triggered this thread.



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