>> a few cases the shortcut implies a particular path >> so that the existence of the intermediates can be inferred. (such as >> "rights held by"). > > Hi Martin! > In my opinion, a shortcut should never infer a long-path. Hi Vladimir,
My question was about logic, and not about a knowledge base. We intend to separate these two strictly. In case a longpath can be inferred, it logically exists. If one or more of the intermediate nodes can be inferred to exist, they are potentially present in other information we are interested in integrating with it. Then, we can find new links the shortpath did not provide. That is the idea. Best, martin > - IMHO the purpose of a long-path is to provide additional info (e.g. a > date), but the shortcut cannot infer that > - the purpose of a shortcut is to allow simpler representation, so why > also infer a more complex but incomplete representation (no additional > details)? > - in cases when both shortcut and long-path are provided explicitly, an > inferred long-path would be superfluous (duplicate), or a system needs to > go through extra effort to somehow correlate the inferred to an existing > long-path > > Cheers! Vladimir > > _______________________________________________ > Crm-sig mailing list > Crm-sig@ics.forth.gr > http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig >
