[om-list] Semantics for the Semantic Web: The Implicit, the Formal and the Powerful

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Hello out there!

  If anyone is still listening, here is a nice article about the 
requirement of a general purpose knowledge representation system:

Semantics for the Semantic Web: The Implicit, the Formal and the Powerful
Amit Sheth, Cartic Ramakrishnan and Christopher Thomas
Large Scale Distributed Information Systems lab
University of Georgia, Athens, GA USA

Int'l Journal on Semantic Web & Information Systems, 1(1), 1-18, 
Jan-March 2005

http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/library/download/SRT05-IJ-SW-IS.pdf


Personally speaking, I have a renewed interest in the type of analytical 
semantics virtually no one ever does - namely metaphysical analytical 
semantics - the mapping of words to baseline metaphysical (read: 
foundational) concepts -  a notion which is a veritable antithema to the 
traditional linguistics crowd.  And of course anything which is nearly 
universally rejected for all the wrong reasons is likely to be a 
interesting area to explore, if only because it is terra incognita.  
Saussure was wrong. The amazing thing is that anyone ever believed he 
was right. Kuhn was wrong too, but that is another story.

 - Mark B.
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