On the Semantics of Anonymous Identity and Reification

  • Authors:
  • Guizhen Yang;Michael Kifer

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, 2002 - DOA/CoopIS/ODBASE 2002 Confederated International Conferences DOA, CoopIS and ODBASE 2002
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Reification and anonymous resources are two of the more interesting features of RDF -- an emerging standard for representing semantic information on the Web. Ironically, when RDF was standardized by W3C over three years ago [18], it came without a semantics. There is now growing understanding that a Semantic Web language without a semantics is an oxymoron, and a number of efforts are directed towards giving RDF a precise semantics [12,10]. In this paper we propose a simple semantics for reification and anonymous resources in F-logic [17] -- a frame-based logic language, which is a popular formalism for representing and reasoning about semantic information on the Web [22,9,11,8,7].The choice of F-logic (over RDF) as a basis for our semantics is motivated by the fact that F-logic provides a comprehensive solution for the problem of integrating frames, rules, and deduction, and it has been shown to provide an effective inference service for RDF [8,21].