Re: SUO: Multi-Source Ontology (MSO) Draft Ballot Question
Jim,
I'm puzzled by this product and its description. It appears to contain
some terms from SUMO, but not their axioms, so I'm not clear to what extent
an integration is in progress. Without many of the links already in
WordNet, or the logical relations in SUMO, how does this proposal address
the need for inference stated in the SUO charter? SUMO has already been
linked to WordNet. If the WordNet linguistic hierarchy has been
"corrected", then it may well be that many of the links from SUMO to a
changed version of WordNet will no longer be valid. Since SUMO itself is a
full version with axioms, what are the purported benefits of this work over
SUMO? Does this proposal contain any content not already in SUMO or WordNet?
Adam
At 09:59 PM 1/27/2004 +0000, jim.s3@juno.com wrote:
>SUO,
>
> The following draft ballot question is posted for review and
> comment. Please don't vote yet.
>
>Jim Schoening
>
>================================================
>
>Ballot Question:
>
> "Should the IEEE P1600.1 Standard Upper Ontology Working Group
> commence work on the Multi-Source Ontology (MSO) of the WebKB-2
> knowledge server (www.webkb.org)."
>
>Background:
>
>The features and rationales of WebKB-2 and its MSO have been previously
>introduced: http://www.webkb.org/doc/onSUOlist/m031202Schoening.html
>(plus subsequent messages stored in the same directory).
>
>In short, each object - a category (type or individual), a link between
>categories, or a more complex statement (graph) - has an associated
>source (user and/or document), and a Web user can
>1) query, re-use and add new categories, links or graphs,
>2) remove those she have created (and mainly only those),
>3) "correct other graphs" (represent alternative beliefs) by using
> relations such as pm#corrective_specialization.
>Knowledge additions being centralized and incremental, the objects
>can be highly interconnected (hence, retrievable and re-usable) and
>each detected inconsistency or redundancy is solved by its author, thus
>guiding her to write more precise and (re-)usable knowledge.
>However, the users can (and are advised to) store and document
>their knowledge within Web files and ask WebKB-2 to parse these files
>(until no error is detected and the knowledge is commited in the KB).
>
>The MSO of WebKB-2 is currently mainly composed of an extension and
>correction of the noun-related part of WordNet 1.7 plus some top-level
>ontologies (mainly, extensions of those of John Sowa in his books of
>1984 and 2000, DOLCE, OWL and various categories from other sources):
>details are accessible from http://www.webkb.org/doc/papers/iccs03/
>
>The integration of the SUMO is in progress. The 4D ontology named
>"Lifecycle integration Schema" is (and will remain) loosely integrated.
>This ontology, some general statements, and a few small domain ontologies
>are listed as example files in http://www.webkb.org/kb/
>A 4-level indented list of the upper part of the resulting taxonomy
>can by accessed via
>http://www.webkb.org/bin/categSearch.cgi?categ=pm%23thing&recursLink=%3E&depth=3&hyperlinks
>If the link encodings is a problem, add &longLinkNames at the end of
>the URL or see http://www.webkb.org/doc/onSUOlist/m031216phmartin.html
>An indented list of the relation types can be accessed via
>http://www.webkb.org/bin/categSearch.cgi?categ=pm%23elation&recursLink=%3E&hyperlinks
>
>Filtering on a particular source can be done, e.g. enter sumo#* in the
>Category Search interface: http://www.webkb.org/interface/categSearch.html
>(in the displayed taxonomies, dots replace categories not from the SUMO).
>
>
>
>
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