http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/3129/paper.pdf (forgot the URL)


2014-06-11 16:43 GMT+02:00 Thomas Douillard <[email protected]>:

> For a maybe more example, this paper follow that path, and gives example
> (and in the same time proves the approach is fully compatible with OWL2
> reasoning).
>
>
> 2014-06-11 15:23 GMT+02:00 Thomas Douillard <[email protected]>:
>
>
>> A subclass of B
>> A instance of 'type of B'
>> B subclass of 'C'
>> B instance of 'type of C'
>> C subclass of 'D'
>> C instance of 'type of D'
>>
>> It's a bit more subtle than that, as, let's take the Taxonomy example,
>> and take the <animal> class.
>>
>> Old classifications used to take <fish> as a taxon. It is proved right
>> now that fish is not a clade. It's still a subclass of <animal> though.
>>
>> I claim <fish> subclass of <animal> is still correct.
>> <fish> is an old taxon. But <fish> instance of <clade> is not true.
>>
>> If someone want to search for direct subclasses of "animal", he would
>> still have "fish" as a result, maybe. Although if he is interested in
>> clades only my approach works, and he would get a closer approximation of
>> what modern taxonomy tree is.
>>
>>
>
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