Semantic ambiguity [was: Typing was Re: DBpedia as possible project]

Hi

This is getting interesting!  :)

Alexander Johannesen questioning the basis of linked data and subject identification. Andrew S. Townley's thoughts on scalability, questioning if this can work outside a controlled environment.

Steve Pepper on 4. nov:
> The categories of human knowledge are better expressed using a prototype model than a criterial-attribute (or "Aristotelian") model. In such a model, roles and types are not sharply differentiated, but rather exist on a continuum.


Patrick Durusau on Semantic ambiguity:
"Since we are trying to communicate with other people, there isn’t any escape from semantic ambiguity. Ever."

We're kind of back to the start. In a messy semi-structured world with information overflow, - what kind of technology can help us find a way?

In the meantime, - here's some friday edutainment: "Semantic ambiguity and how human communication fails - except by accident", - revisiting Wiio's laws:
http://everythingisasubject.blogspot.com/2010/11/semantic-ambiguity-and-how-human.html

Laugh today, - it's a sunny friday afternoon (and sink into depression on monday when you realize that it's not only sarcastic humour)  :)


Best Regards,
Are D. Gulbrandsen
The XML-group,
Center for Information Technology Services
University of Oslo