Re: [topicmaps-comment] Mapping Topics to Cyc: How To Handle Scope?

["Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@comcast.net>]

[Murray Altheim]


>
> You seem to be dealing with scopes from a querying standpoint. But scopes
> are used throughout topic maps to combinatorily establish semantic
"filters"
> which affect merging rules, such that incorrect interpretation would lead
> to incorrect merging behaviours, eg., the topic "Dog" being merged with
> "George Bush", the former a base name in English, the latter a base name
> in English (one may have other suitable names for the latter, but that is
> a different discussion).
>

Yes, I used querying just to have a single expression use, but merging would
have done as well.  That is an interesting, thought, though.  Maybe
different behavior with respect to scopes would be wanted for querying than
for merging.

Cheers,

Tom P