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An Example Of Ontology Driven Software Engineering
A self-learning annotation service, not rules
One of they key requirements for the semantic annotation service was that we wanted it to be client driven and thus self learning. We did not want it to be fundamentally rules-based which would require indefinite ongoing maintenance of knowledge rules to ensure the F1 scores…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Language gives numbers their power
development cognitive psychologist Elizabeth Spelke calls this the “compositionality power” of language. It allows us to take the approximate sense of numerosity we are all born with and make sets out of the individual objects we estimate.43 Noam Chomsky has long claimed that…
Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan)
Speculative grammar: even though the words are arbitrarily imposed (whence arise the differences between all languages), the modes of signifying are uniformly related to the modes of being by means of the modes of understanding (whence arise the gram
The idea, fundamental both for Bacon and Ps.-Kilwardby, that grammar is a regular science rather than a propaedeutic art, is shared by the school of the so-called “modist grammarians” (modistae) emerging around 1270 in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Paris and…
What Are The Differences Between A Vocabulary, A Taxonomy, A Thesaurus, An Ontology, And A Meta-model?
The many meanings of ontology
People use the word ontology to mean different things, e.g. glossaries & data dictionaries, thesauri & taxonomies, schemas & data models, and formal ontologies & inference. A formal ontology is a controlled vocabulary expressed in an ontology representation…