[Person-ontology] OWL for exchanging ontologies

[JAMES R SCHOENING]

Pat,

        You are correct.  By translating down (for example, from CLIF to
OWL), there will be loss of meaning.

Jim


On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:09:49 -0500 Pat Hayes <phayes at ihmc.us> writes:
> >Paul,
> >
> >        There is a broad misconception that OWL was meant to be a
> >standard language for developing ontologies.  Rather, it was meant 
> more
> >for exchanging them.  So, Higgins could use a more-expressive 
> language
> >for development, for internal inferencing, for exchange with 
> compliant
> >associates, and then could tranlate down to OWL for exchange with
> >others.
> 
> Well, yes, but only if it is POSSIBLE to translate down. OWL does 
> have a strict semantics, and it may not be possible to translate 
> down 
> from a more expressive language to OWL while preserving the more 
> expressive meaning using the OWL semantic conditions. For example, 
> it 
> isn't possible to do this for full first-order logic.
> 
> Pat
> 
> >
> >        Here's a quote from Jim Hendler, who is a guru in this 
> field:
> >
> >Jim Hendler:  "So, let me go back to OWL for a second, see I have a 
> very
> >different view of OWL than some people, which may sound funny to 
> some
> >people. I don't view OWL as an ontology language per se or as a 
> very
> >good KR language. OWL is a language for exchanging ontologies much 
> more
> >than a specific language; so if I'm dong my own application, I view 
> OWL
> >as the way I export and import knowledge from other people, I don't 
> view
> >it as the only thing I'm allowed to use on the whole world for
> >knowledge.
> >
> >The full panel transcript is at:
> >
>
>http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_08_11/Sessio
> >nTranscript
> >
> >Jim Schoening
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