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A question I would have is if the operations that Sowa/Majumdar post in the cited article for CGs apply to analogical reasoning work on RDF. http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/analog.htm Note that the authors begin by stating that: "Logical and analogical reasoning are sometimes viewed as mutually exclusive alternatives but formal logic is actually a highly constrained and stylized method of using analogies. Before any subject can be formalized to the stage where logic can be applied to it, analogies must be used to derive an abstract representation from a mass of irrelevant detail. After the formalization is complete, every logical step -- of deduction, induction, and abduction -- involved the application of some version of analogy... The same operations used to process analogies can be combined with Peirce's rules of inference to support an inference engine. Those operations, called the canonical formation rules for conceptual graphs, are widely used in CG systems for language understanding and scene recognition as well as analogy finding and theorem proving. The same algorithms used to optimize analogy finding can be used to speed up all the methods of reasoning based on the canonical formation rules." len From: Thomas B. Passin [mailto:tpassin@c...] [Danny Ayers] > > Probably this particular example for a start. The Conceptual Graph model > Sowa uses throughout his work isn't that far removed from the one underlying > RDF. In fact Tim Berners-Lee [1] and others have considered mappings. I think it is a long reach to say that RDF is anywhere near close to CGs, notwithstanding that you can draw a graph for each.
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