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I mean given a text, can one build an ontology from it or match it to an existing ontology? In other words, what does one do with an ontology or knowledge level description? One thing is to use it to establish further deeper agreement about some domain of discourse. I identified one (a Request For a Proposal) and suggest that each discourse by use of the ontology may lead naturally and formally to the next logical discourse. This is negotiation. We can't entirely put away natural language. In fact, we'd be hard pressed to give a closed definition for "natural language". If you can create an RDF from the web pages, you can do it from other texts. The formality and structure of the texts make a difference of degree. Those definitions as resources are in fact, natural language accompanied by axiomatic tests. It isn't impractical. Consider it in the framework of UDDI defined services. A service layer below discovery is interpretation and negotiation in a cycle that outputs a Quote. Then another round of negotiation to create a Contract that will include Terms and Conditions. This is followed by execution of said contract which will include parallel operations, tests, and so forth until the project (outermost process of a nested process definition) closes. BTW: UDDI provides elements with key attributes (serviceKey, businessKey, tModelKey, etc) and these can be used to get details about services. The URL gets you the entry point. At that point, once you get past the surface descriptions, you engage the local business protocol. Businesses have been negotitating the steps in such protocols since Rome ruled Carthage. It is SOP. Len Bullard Intergraph Public Safety clbullar@i... http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h From: Sean B. Palmer [mailto:sean@m...] > Could an ontology be used to service an engine > that analyzes a text and determines the intent of > the sender with regards to the text and what > actions would meet that intent? I don't think so. Note that TimBL in his XML2000 presentation said that the Semantic Web did *not* mean the semantics of natural language. Of ocurse, I may be completely misinterpreting what you are saying there! When you mean analyze a text, did you mean analyze data?
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