Re: Cross Language with topic maps [was Re: 答复: KB note]

2008-05-30 Thread eric neumann
Yeah you're right-- should have placed them in b-nodes... Eric On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Dan Brickley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > eric neumann wrote: > >> Why not simply use to following trick on top of universal symbols? >> >> > rdfs:label="Mann" lang="ge" >> rdfs:label="mâle" lang="fr"

Re: Cross Language with topic maps [was Re: 答复: KB note]

2008-05-30 Thread Kei Cheung
Just a few clarifications. First of all, I'm not an expert in TCM. Also, herbal medicine is not just restricted to TCM, but it has a global interest (in other Asian and European countries). TCM includes other areas than herbal medicine, such as acupuncture Right now we try to limit our s

Re: Cross Language with topic maps [was Re: 答复: KB note]

2008-05-29 Thread Dan Brickley
eric neumann wrote: Why not simply use to following trick on top of universal symbols? rdfs:label="male" lang="en" rdfs:label="Mann" lang="ge" rdfs:label="mâle" lang="fr" rdfs:label="男性" lang="zh-Hans" ... > Eric If that's meant to be XML ... it isn't :) (attributes of same name can't be

Re: Cross Language with topic maps [was Re: 答复: KB note]

2008-05-28 Thread eric neumann
Kei, Though the concepts you raise could be modeled ontologically, I don't believe these should be layered on top of the existing UMLS. I was simply suggesting UMLS in an international form-- additional concepts can be defined in other namespaces. Eric On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Kei Cheung

Re: Cross Language with topic maps [was Re: 答复: KB note]

2008-05-28 Thread Huajun Chen @ Zhejiang University
In some cases, this approach works, but in perhaps more cases, it doesn't. I don't think we need and could find out correspondence between all concepts in Chinese medicine and Western medicine, as TCM has a different concept framework for describing many things. I also do not think we can figure o

Re: Cross Language with topic maps [was Re: 答复: KB note]

2008-05-28 Thread Jack Park
Xiaoshu Wang wrote: Kei Cheung wrote: Hi Eric et al, I'm glad that umls, topic map, ... were mentioned. We have to do more than literal translation or linguistics. It's semantics! Traditional Chinese medicine embodies rich dialectical thought, such as that of the holistic connections a

Re: Cross Language with topic maps [was Re: 答复: KB note]

2008-05-28 Thread Xiaoshu Wang
Kei Cheung wrote: Hi Eric et al, I'm glad that umls, topic map, ... were mentioned. We have to do more than literal translation or linguistics. It's semantics! Traditional Chinese medicine embodies rich dialectical thought, such as that of the holistic connections and the unity of yin an

Re: Cross Language with topic maps [was Re: 答复: KB note]

2008-05-28 Thread Jack Park
Thanks for the question, Kai. Topic maps in RDF: There exists an OWL DL variant of the XML topic maps standard (XTM) [1] There may be others. Certainly a search on "owl topic map" reveals interest. I have an OWL Full variant of the TMRM "subject maps" standard, ISO 13250-5. The TMRM (topic map

Re: Cross Language with topic maps [was Re: 答复: KB note]

2008-05-28 Thread Kei Cheung
Hi Eric et al, I'm glad that umls, topic map, ... were mentioned. We have to do more than literal translation or linguistics. It's semantics! Traditional Chinese medicine embodies rich dialectical thought, such as that of the holistic connections and the unity of yin and yang. It deals with

Re: Cross Language with topic maps [was Re: 答复: KB note]

2008-05-28 Thread eric neumann
Why not simply use to following trick on top of universal symbols? Eric 2008/5/28 Jack Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > In cross-language data integration, it may be a simple matter of using a > multitude of language-scoped labels in an ontology. Another approach > that has been mentioned on this

Cross Language with topic maps [was Re: 答复: KB note]

2008-05-28 Thread Jack Park
In cross-language data integration, it may be a simple matter of using a multitude of language-scoped labels in an ontology. Another approach that has been mentioned on this list many moons back by the late Bill Bugg was that of applying topic maps to the federation of heterogeneous resources, inc

Re: 答复: KB note

2008-05-28 Thread Xiaoshu Wang
Huajun [EMAIL PROTECTED] University wrote: > Another challenge is cross-language data integration, which is actually a > job that ontology should do. > I honestly disagree. Ontology is about the semantics of *being* but that of symbols. It doesn't matter if how "gene" is called, named, or writ

Re: 答复: KB note

2008-05-27 Thread Kei Cheung
I agree. -Kei Huajun [EMAIL PROTECTED] University wrote: > Another challenge is cross-language data integration, which is actually a > job that ontology should do. > > Best wishes, huajun > > -邮件原件- > 发件人: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 代表 Matthias Samwald > 发送时间: 2008年5月2