Re: SUO: Semantic interoperability
On 12/5/01 12:37, "John F. Sowa" <sowa@bestweb.net> wrote:
[Sowa]
> On the NCITS L8 mailing list, there was some discussion of how
> the term "semantic interoperability" might be defined. Someone
> suggested a defintion taken from a standards document, which I
> criticized as a big fuzzy cloud of words. I'm sending a copy
> of that note to the SUO list because such a definition is also
> necessary for defining conformance for any system that uses
> an ontology.
>
> [deleted stuff]
>
> Bottom line: If you want to have a definition that is independent
> of a particular implementation, you need logic or some sugar-coated
> substitute for logic, such as SQL or a controlled natural language.
>
> John Sowa
John,
Good for you! This is exactly the kind of bread-and-butter topic which
needs to be thoroughly hashed out in this (and other) groups. For some
reason people seem inclined to avoid pinning down exactly what it means to
be "semantically interoperable".
Perhaps one reason is the mentioned requirement for logic. Whatever such a
definition will look like, it's going to take more than FOL to express it.
I will think about this (and I encourage others to as well) and will post a
response as soon as I have something reasonable to say.
.bill
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