From: Deborah Mcguinness ([email protected])
Date: 06/09/01
I am willing to co-author an updated version of this paper aimed at daml+oil. I am a little backlogged on writing commitments at the moment however so can not start this until a few others are cleared off of the stack. d Ian Horrocks wrote: > On June 5, Deborah Mcguinness writes: > > Good points pat. > > > > In followup to the discussion in today's meeting the following two > > additional sources of information on how to use daml-like systems follow: > > > > The first is how to use a kl-one-like system (or how to use a simple dl > > system) > > > > Ronald J. Brachman, Alex Borgida, Deborah L. McGuinness, Peter F. > > Patel-Schneider, and Lori Alperin Resnick. ``Living with CLASSIC: When > > and How to Use a KL-ONE-Like Language.'' In Principles of Semantic > > Networks: Explorations in the representation of knowledge, ed. John Sowa. > > San Mateo, California: Morgan Kaufmann, 1991, pages 401--456. > > I don't mean to disparage this paper - in fact I still regularly cite > it and recommend it - but I would suggest that there is an urgent need > for a more up to date version of the same kind of paper, one that > reflects the changes in KR that have taken place in the intervening 10 > years and (some of) the additional expressive power provided by modern > KR languages (like DAML+OIL). Any volunteers? > > Ian > > > > > I just put up an abstract page for it that points to the postscript > > version peter has up: > > http://www.ksl.Stanford.EDU/people/dlm/papers/living-with-classic-abstract.html > > > > Also, we used the examples in this paper to provide an ontology tutorial > > aimed more at protege than any other system. one could think of this > > as how to build a first ontology using a language with at least medium > > level expressive power. > > > > ref: > > Natalya Fridman Noy and Deborah L. McGuinness. ``Ontology Development > > 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology''. Stanford Knowledge > > Systems Laboratory Technical Report KSL-01-05 and Stanford Medical > > Informatics Technical Report SMI-2001-0880, March 2001. > > > > abstract (with pointers) is up at: > > http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/papers/ontology-tutorial-noy-mcguinness-abstract.html > > > > d > > > > pat hayes wrote: > > > > > Q: Do I need a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence to use DAML? > > > A: > > > No. The designers of DAML are seeking to merge experience > > > gained from their collective work in Knowledge > > > Representation and other AI fields, the World Wide Web, > > > software development, and military and commercial > > > applications to provide a language and tools that balance > > > usability and power. > > > > > > That answer is a bit of a cop-out. The fact is that DAML in its > > > present form is *not* easy to learn or to follow. Many of its > > > constructs are fairly abstruse (I'm thinking in particular of the > > > min/maxCardinalityQ). The restriction/onProperty/toClass way of > > > talking is not given by God to all right-thinking people, but is an > > > idiosyncratic perspective limited to those familiar with the, er, > > > classical class languages. It still makes my head hurt. So I think > > > the honest answer might be more like "No, but it sure would help, and > > > you had better know a bit about object-oriented class-inheritance > > > languages." > > > > > > But more seriously, surely the first FAQ should be something like > > > "what use is DAML to me?" or "What should I use DAML for?" or some > > > such. The FAQ right now doesnt seem to actually say what DAML really > > > is in any sharp sense. For example, we might point out that the > > > 'class/property' way of talking has been widely used in Krep and is > > > closely linked to things like data modelling languages, just to kind > > > of locate this whole enterprise in some kind of intellectual space. > > > > > > Before asking why not use XML, something should explain the > > > relationships of DAML to RDF(S) and XML. > > > > > > Pat > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > IHMC (850)434 8903 home > > > 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office > > > Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax > > > [email protected] > > > http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes > > > > -- > > Deborah L. McGuinness > > Knowledge Systems Laboratory > > Gates Computer Science Building, 2A Room 241 > > Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-9020 > > email: [email protected] > > URL: http://ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/index.html > > (voice) 650 723 9770 (stanford fax) 650 725 5850 (computer fax) > > 801 705 0941 > > > > -- Deborah L. McGuinness Knowledge Systems Laboratory Gates Computer Science Building, 2A Room 241 Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-9020 email: [email protected] URL: http://ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/index.html (voice) 650 723 9770 (stanford fax) 650 725 5850 (computer fax) 801 705 0941
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