Re: SUO: Expressiveness Challenge
Also, in NLP, Remi Zajac (zajac@crl.nmsu.edu) recently had a paper
"Towards Ontological Question Answering" at the ACL-01 Workshop on
Open-Domain Question Answering.
http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/QAsch.html
In fact, Question Answering in general could be a good testcase.
I know Microcosmos, Penman, SENSUS, WordNet, and LILOG were created
primarily for natural language applications.
Leo
Yang Yun wrote:
>
> Candidate super-ontologies should be rigorously tested in each area
> listed in the Project Authorisation ie data interoperability,
> information search and retrieval, automated inferencing, and natural
> language processing.
>
> For data interoperability, one use case or "Challenge Problem" is
> to unify different accounting taxonomies such as US GAAP and
> International Accounting Standard about to be mandated in the EU.
> SUMO is already used in a financial accounting ontology, so it
> would not be an unreasonable scenario.
> Because of resource limitations, this would need to be more of
> a sketch than a complete mapping. Maybe one of the Big 5 firms could
> complete the task?
>
> Once you have data interoperability, a search and retrieval capability
> follows.
>
> For automated inferencing, I suggest that the 'Units of Measure'
> subontology be used for dimension checking. A use case could be
> borrowed from either EPISTLE (pipe dimensions) or CellML (
> electro physiology equations), or the like. The important test
> here is to have machine checkable representations of the sources,
> and clearly that is missing at the moment. It is embarrassing that
> superontologies are being offered that have not even been syntax-
> checked. This test would overcome that point.
>
> For natural language processing, perhaps we could invite Jae-Ho Kim
> http://reliant.teknowledge.com/IJCAI01/Kim.html to suggest one.
> John Sowa has already a use case involving understanding the
> business newsfeed from a reputable source like Wall Street Journal.
> I understand these feeds are marked up in either SGML or NEWSML,
> making the task even easier.
>
> yy
>
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