SUO: Re: Informal definitions of ...
Rich,
The issues involved in natural language semantics are
intimately connected with every philosophical problem,
every logical problem, every database problem, and
every terminological, representational, metamodeling,
taxonomical, and ontological problem that has ever been
discussed and analyzed over the past several millennia.
> "What are the differences between a vocabulary,
> a taxonomy, a thesaurus, an ontology, and a
> meta-model?" is at:
http://www.metamodel.com/article.php?story=20030115211223271&mode=print
Yes. That's a good one-page summary of the way those
words are being used. In short, it almost begins
to scratch the surface.
> The notion of monosemy in a controlled language
> bothers me. I'm looking for ways to disambiguate
> polysemous words, now that I have a relational
> database of WordNet synsets.
Welcome to the crowd. As the shrink said to
Portnoy at the end of _Portnoy's Complaint_,
"Now perhaps we can begin."
John