Abstract :
The term unification is meaningful only with respect to applications. A term´s meaning, or semantics, is evident in its use - if the application is successful, the terms have been used correctly. Unifying academic ontologies is unification in a vacuum. The only way to know if we have done it correctly is to test whether the applications associated with the terms interoperate successfully - a notion called pragmatic semantic unification. Ontologies should refer to applications, and unification success should be tested with interoperability.
Keywords :
computational linguistics; ontologies (artificial intelligence); open systems; peer-to-peer computing; semantic Web; semantic networks; computational linguistics; interoperability; ontologies; open systems; peer-to-peer computing; pragmatic semantic unification; semantic Web; semantic networks; Application software; Feedback; Industrial relations; Internet; Law; Ontologies; Peer to peer computing; Semantic Web; Software agents; Testing; Semantic Web; Semantic Web services;
