RE: suggested edits on SWRL-FOL document (I think they're high-priority)

From: Said TABET (stabet@comcast.net)
Date: 12/21/04

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    Hi Mike and All,
 
The edits suggested by Benjamin look good to me. We should consider adding them.

Thanks,
 
      -- Said
 
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-joint-committee@wrath.daml.org [mailto:owner-joint-
> committee@wrath.daml.org] On Behalf Of Benjamin Grosof
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 11:04 AM
> To: joint-committee@daml.org
> Subject: suggested edits on SWRL-FOL document (I think they're high-
> priority)
> 
> (sorry I didn't send these earlier, was on travel during the last two
> telecons with poor wireless access during the trip)
> 
> % suggested edits on SWRL-FOL document by Benjamin Grosof 12/21/04 early
> aft.
> % wrt the current version of the SWRL-FOL document, which is at:
> %   http://www.daml.org/rules/fol/proposal
> 
> 
> Hi folks,
> You may recall we've had quite a bit of discussion previously that it
> is important to make clear the relationship of SWRL-FOL to full FOL,
> to standard formulation(s) of FOL, and to FOL RuleML.
> This was also stressed by a number of the people giving feedback on
> SWRL-FOL at the DAML PI Meeting (including Mark Greaves).
> 
> I find that the current version of the document does not yet
> make this clear enough.
> In particular, the title, the abstract, and the introduction do not make
> it clear enough.
> 
> This motivates me to suggest the following edits.
> 
> 1. Title:
> 
> A Proposal for a SWRL Extension towards First-Order Logic
> 
> Comment:  This replaces "to" by "towards"
> 
> 2. Abstract:
> 
> This is a description of a proposed extension of SWRL to handle
> function-free unary/binary first-order logic. This is intended to be a
> minimal extension that fits well with SWRL, OWL, and
> RDF.  Transformation-based techniques to handle functions and n-ary
> predicates are suggested in an appendix.
> 
> Comment:  this adds the qualification "function-free" before "unary/binary
> first-order logic", and adds a sentence explaining the appendix.
> 
> 3. Introduction:
> 
> This document contains a proposal for an extension to the SWRL extension
> of
> OWL [SWRL]. This proposal extends the set of OWL axioms to include an
> axiom
> for arbitrary function-free first-order formula over unary and binary
> predicates, interpreted in the usual manner. A high-level abstract syntax
> is provided that extends the OWL abstract syntax described in the OWL
> Semantics and Abstract Syntax document [OWL S&AS]. An extension of the
> SWRL
> and OWL model-theoretic semantics is also given to provide a formal
> meaning
> for OWL ontologies including formulae written in this abstract syntax.
> 
> Comment:  this adds "function-free" before "first-order formula".
> 
> 
> Best,
> Benjamin
> 
> 
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