Re: [topicmaps-comment] OpenCyc and Topic Maps: Progress Report

["W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@isogen.com>]

"Thomas B. Passin" wrote:

>         <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="#ProperNameString"/>
> 
> but the comments describing ProperNameString do not agree with those for
> Abbreviation.  An Abbreviation is said to be
> 
> "A shortened version of a written word or phrase"
> 
> wheras a ProperNameString is said to be
> 
> "The collection of all proper names, considered as haracter strings.
> 
> I don't see how, with these definitions, Abbreviation can be a subClassOf
> ProperNameString.

I can't give a rationale for this, but this does reflect the KB in the
OpenCyc distribution. Abbreviation directly generalizes
ProperNameString.

If I had to guess, I would say that the rationale is that an
abbreviation is a name for the word it abbreviates.

Cheers,

E.
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Eliot Kimber
ISOGEN International