Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-02 Thread John Madden
Ciao, > Andrea > > -Original Message- > From: public-semweb-lifesci-requ...@w3.org > [mailto:public-semweb-lifesci-requ...@w3.org] On Behalf Of Oliver Ruebenacker > Sent: 02 February 2010 12:51 > To: John Madden > Cc: w3c semweb HCLS > Subject: Re: When does a docu

RE: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-02 Thread Solbrig, Harold R.
: Solbrig, Harold R.; John Madden; w3c semweb HCLS Cc: Chimezie Ogbuji Subject: RE: When does a document acquire (web) semantics? Sorry, what's the AAA principle ? It seems to me ignoring is not a problem. In case, thinking that you don't ignore anything is against the SemWeb framew

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-02 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello Andrea, On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:41 AM, andrea splendiani (RRes-Roth) wrote: > What is "meaning" for you ? That's precisely what I am trying to find out. Take care Oliver -- Oliver Ruebenacker, Computational Cell Biologist Systems Biology Linker at Virtual Cell (http:/

RE: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-02 Thread andrea splendiani (RRes-Roth)
w3.org] On Behalf Of Solbrig, Harold R. Sent: 02 February 2010 15:18 To: John Madden; w3c semweb HCLS Cc: Chimezie Ogbuji Subject: RE: When does a document acquire (web) semantics? The AAA principle that forms one of the underlying pillars of much of the semantic web work does not necessarily work in s

RE: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-02 Thread andrea splendiani (RRes-Roth)
ao, Andrea -Original Message- From: public-semweb-lifesci-requ...@w3.org [mailto:public-semweb-lifesci-requ...@w3.org] On Behalf Of Oliver Ruebenacker Sent: 02 February 2010 12:51 To: John Madden Cc: w3c semweb HCLS Subject: Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics? Hello, W

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-02 Thread Rakesh Biswas
Agree with Mark. Only how I wish there was ONE physicians' ontology. Added problem is it changes rapidly with time. rakesh http://peoplesgroup.academia.edu/RakeshBiswas On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Mark Wilkinson wrote: > On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:08:38 -0800, Danny Ayers > wrote: > > Peter, I

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-02 Thread John Madden
Chime, Thank you, thank you! This helps a great deal. Give me a bit to digest this pattern and try it out John On Feb 2, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Chimezie Ogbuji wrote: > On 2/2/10 8:25 AM, "John Madden" wrote: >> In the interim, the closest we can come to named graphs currently seems to be >>

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-02 Thread Mark Wilkinson
On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:08:38 -0800, Danny Ayers wrote: Peter, I agree with 99% of what you said but this bit bothers me a bit: People regularly misinterpret medical documents currently by examining them without the proper medical training. Adding superclasses etc or deleting elements as th

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-02 Thread Chimezie Ogbuji
On 2/2/10 8:25 AM, "John Madden" wrote: > In the interim, the closest we can come to named graphs currently seems to be > the RDF document as a unit of communication. Most of the work in HCLS has so > far has focused on the benefits you can get from aggregation, i.e. from > specifically treating R

RE: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-02 Thread Solbrig, Harold R.
[mailto:public-semweb-lifesci-requ...@w3.org] On Behalf Of John Madden Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 9:04 AM To: w3c semweb HCLS Cc: Chimezie Ogbuji Subject: Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics? Chime, Agreed. Another question is whether any particular RDF representation *sh

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-02 Thread Xiaoshu Wang
I am a little bit slow because I don't really know what is the argument? Is their essential difference between (1) A user performs an act of interpretation (2) A user executes a SPARQL query Isn't "execution of SPARQL query" an "act of interpretation"? I think so, hence I don't know what is the

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-02 Thread John Madden
Chime, Agreed. Another question is whether any particular RDF representation *should* carry any authority. To take the most trivial and unproblematic case, suppose the author is just plain unskilled at rendering his meaning as triples. Maybe his RDF is junk. Maybe we should ignore it. You mi

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-02 Thread Chimezie Ogbuji
On 2/2/10 8:25 AM, "John Madden" wrote: > This makes it rather difficult to use RDF in clinical care. With English > language documents, we reject those that are not signed and original (or > faithful copies of the signed original) for purposes of clinical care. But in > the SW world, there is no

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-02 Thread John Madden
Oliver, Great response. I'd suggest that one component of a meaning detector would be a program that converts the English language text of the document into a set of triples (i.e. a grddl transform). However, it would not seem that this is the complete construction of the meaning detector, si

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-02 Thread John Madden
>> Is this a possible scenario? Where does it fail? Is it that the SemWeb >> doesn't support any notion of an "official" graph? Is it that there is no >> such thing as an "official graph" at all (on the sem web or anywhere else)? > > It doesn't, and there isn't. The SWeb position on official is

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-02 Thread Jim McCusker
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >     Hello, > >  When asking for a practical example, I was more concerned about the > consumer rather than the producer of data. It is easy to claim some > data has meaning, but the question is to what extend that meaning can > be appreci

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-02 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, When asking for a practical example, I was more concerned about the consumer rather than the producer of data. It is easy to claim some data has meaning, but the question is to what extend that meaning can be appreciated by others. Why don't we build a little meaning detector. Som

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Pat Hayes
On Feb 1, 2010, at 3:53 PM, John Madden wrote: Hi Oliver, I don't want to speak for Eric, and I'm not even sure I've accurately represented his point here. Nor am I sure that they *are* different scenarios. Instead of saying they are or aren't, let me throw out a scenario that concerns

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Danny Ayers
bad news. > > >> Davide >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Danny Ayers [mailto:danny.ay...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 9:11 PM >> To: Davide Zaccagnini >> Cc: Peter Ansell; Andrea Splendiani; John Madden; w3c semweb HCLS; Eri

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Danny Ayers
On 2 February 2010 04:30, Joanne Luciano wrote: >>> . I suppose what I'm saying is we have to allow for ignorance >>> in these systems, which is virtually impossible to express, even in >>> OWL. > > > Ignorance can be expressed in at least 2 ways in OWL... Disclaimer: this is > off the top of my h

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Joanne Luciano
ent: Monday, February 01, 2010 9:11 PM To: Davide Zaccagnini Cc: Peter Ansell; Andrea Splendiani; John Madden; w3c semweb HCLS; Eric Prud'hommeaux Subject: Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics? I'm sorry Davide, but your description seems to put this stuff at an unambiguou

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Danny Ayers
ohn Madden; w3c semweb HCLS; Eric > Prud'hommeaux > Subject: Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics? > > I'm sorry Davide, but your description seems to put this stuff at an > unambiguous level, but we all know that's not true. The practitioners > ma

RE: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Davide Zaccagnini
ini Cc: Peter Ansell; Andrea Splendiani; John Madden; w3c semweb HCLS; Eric Prud'hommeaux Subject: Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics? I'm sorry Davide, but your description seems to put this stuff at an unambiguous level, but we all know that's not true. The practitioners

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Danny Ayers
t; From: public-semweb-lifesci-requ...@w3.org > [mailto:public-semweb-lifesci-requ...@w3.org] On Behalf Of Peter Ansell > Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 6:41 PM > To: Andrea Splendiani > Cc: John Madden; w3c semweb HCLS; Eric Prud'hommeaux > Subject: Re: When does a document a

RE: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Davide Zaccagnini
[mailto:public-semweb-lifesci-requ...@w3.org] On Behalf Of Peter Ansell Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 6:41 PM To: Andrea Splendiani Cc: John Madden; w3c semweb HCLS; Eric Prud'hommeaux Subject: Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics? I agree completely! Cheers, Peter On 2 Feb

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Peter Ansell
I agree completely! Cheers, Peter On 2 February 2010 09:26, Andrea Splendiani wrote: > Hi, > > I think there are two aspects related to semantics. > One is interpretation (like: the world is flat by Mark). And this is in the > ontology or, if you want, even in queries. > But there is also the

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Peter Ansell
On 2 February 2010 09:08, Danny Ayers wrote: > Peter, I agree with 99% of what you said but this bit bothers me a bit: > > >> People regularly misinterpret medical documents currently by examining >> them without the proper medical training. Adding superclasses etc or >> deleting elements as they

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Andrea Splendiani
Hi, I think there are two aspects related to semantics. One is interpretation (like: the world is flat by Mark). And this is in the ontology or, if you want, even in queries. But there is also the fact that you "name" things when you expose a resource. The resource itself, or some info in more d

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Danny Ayers
Peter, I agree with 99% of what you said but this bit bothers me a bit: > People regularly misinterpret medical documents currently by examining > them without the proper medical training. Adding superclasses etc or > deleting elements as they feel necessary is just formalising the > process wher

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Peter Ansell
On 2 February 2010 08:16, Jim McCusker wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:53 PM, John Madden wrote: >> >> Hi Oliver, >>        (For a medical document, it might not be *me* that insists on this >> claim; it might be my employer/hospital. >>        They don't want people attributing meanings to the

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Mark Wilkinson
On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:16:30 -0800, Jim McCusker wrote: The employer/hospital cannot prohibit someone else's ignorance. sigh... how true!! ;-) Mark -- Mark D Wilkinson, PI Bioinformatics Assistant Professor, Medical Genetics The James Hogg iCAPTURE Centre for Cardiovascular and Pulm

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Jim McCusker
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:53 PM, John Madden wrote: > Hi Oliver, >(For a medical document, it might not be *me* that insists on this > claim; it might be my employer/hospital. >They don't want people attributing meanings to the document other > than those they have had a chance >

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread John Madden
Hi Oliver, I don't want to speak for Eric, and I'm not even sure I've accurately represented his point here. Nor am I sure that they *are* different scenarios. Instead of saying they are or aren't, let me throw out a scenario that concerns me, and in the context of which they *might* be differe

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Danny Ayers
On 1 February 2010 19:30, John Madden wrote: > We had an interesting call in TERM today. One of the topics I would like to > boil down to the question "When does a document acquire its semantics?" or, > "when does a document come to mean something?" > > I argued the (admittedly intentionally) ra

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Joanne Luciano (gmail)
Hmmm, John, I'm wondering what criteria you are using to evaluate the equivalence of the result of the conversion function / algorithm. I endeavor in my personal communication to separate observation from judgment, which to me is roughly equivalent to representation and semantic binding.

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread John Madden
Pat, what a concidence! I keep getting those character strings too! Sometimes I play a little game where I convert one of them into a different but completely equivalent character string, and send it back to the original author. I've noticed that sometimes the author responds to my string with a

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:30 PM, John Madden wrote: > We had an interesting call in TERM today. One of the topics I would like to > boil down to the question "When does a document acquire its semantics?" or, > "when does a document come to mean something?" > > I argued the (admittedl

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Joanne Luciano (gmail)
I agree it was a great telcon today. I was glad to be on it. And I love this conversation too. Ya know what I mean? Wink Wink? Does anyone ever know what the other means? Whew. Allow me to quote one of the great minds: "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Pat Hayes
On Feb 1, 2010, at 1:26 PM, Mark Wilkinson wrote: On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:12:35 -0800, Solbrig, Harold R. > wrote: If, however, you wish to *communicate* with other folks about, say, science, it would be highly desirable to overlay a *shared* ontology-of-choice (vs. personal) that, perhaps,

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Mark Wilkinson
On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:12:35 -0800, Solbrig, Harold R. wrote: If, however, you wish to *communicate* with other folks about, say, science, it would be highly desirable to overlay a *shared* ontology-of-choice (vs. personal) that, perhaps, would be focused on shared knowledge about the re

RE: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Solbrig, Harold R.
-requ...@w3.org [mailto:public-semweb-lifesci-requ...@w3.org] On Behalf Of Mark Wilkinson Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 1:05 PM To: Jim McCusker; John Madden Cc: w3c semweb HCLS; Eric Prud'hommeaux Subject: Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics? I love this conversation :-) I h

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Mark Wilkinson
I love this conversation :-) I have a scrap of paper pinned to the filing cabinet beside my desk that says "The World Is Flat - Mark Wilkinson & Ben Good, in the Pub, May 26, 2006". That was the night that I feel I truly came to understand where the "semantics" are in the "semantic web".

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Jim McCusker
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:30 PM, John Madden wrote: > We had an interesting call in TERM today. One of the topics I would like to > boil down to the question "When does a document acquire its semantics?" or, > "when does a document come to mean something?" > > I argued the (admittedly intentionall

Re: When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread Jack Park
Can we perform a mashup on the two positions? Someone who created a SPARQL end point has, by some means, created an interpretation (graph) to query based on some document. Perhaps other SPARQL end points would have different interpretations? Just a tenth EURO... Jack On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:3

When does a document acquire (web) semantics?

2010-02-01 Thread John Madden
We had an interesting call in TERM today. One of the topics I would like to boil down to the question "When does a document acquire its semantics?" or, "when does a document come to mean something?" I argued the (admittedly intentionally) radical view that documents have no semantics whatsoever