Re: SOme results from the Heidelberg Meeting
Chris,
Let me suggest an additional level of classification for your list
Ontology Content
Identity of events
Ontology of relations
Static concepts
Structuring relations
Things, Events, Situations
Wordnet and Eurowordnet (to the extent this discussion is "what can we
merge from WordNet into the SUO")
Language and Representation of the SUO
Language vs. ontology
Multiple inheritance
Vagueness and precision
Use of logic, KIF, etc.
Purpose of the SUO
Methodology and purpose of this effort
Role of upper level ontology
While the latter two groups are needed, my hope is that we'll achieve
consensus in those discussions early and that the bulk of discussion will
eventually be in the first group of topics.
Adam
At 04:25 PM 6/22/2000 +0200, Christopher A. Welty wrote:
>Josiah mentioned the Heidelberg meeting, which occurred in the summer of
>1998. This was a private meeting whose results have been, thus far, kept
>fairly private, certainly not as open as this discussion, to be sure. I
>was not at this meeting, however I happen to be in the next office at the
>moment from someone who was (Nicola).
>
>I'm not sure if the results of the meeting were meant to be kept private,
>so I will share only one thing that I know of that came out of that
>meeting and subsequent email discussions, because I think it impacts this list:
>
>Nicola came up with the following classification of all the discussion
>threads. I suggest we use these as a basis for organizing the discussions
>in this group:
>
>
>Identity of events
>Language vs. ontology
>Methodology and purpose of this effort
>Multiple inheritance
>Ontology of relations
>Role of upper level ontology
>Static concepts
>Structuring relations
>Things, Events, Situations
>Use of logic, KIF, etc.
>Vagueness and precision
>Wordnet and Eurowordnet
>
>-ChrisW
>
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