[Attempto] patterns for ACE

[Martin Luts]

Thank you, Tobias!

The realisation of genus-part of the definition in ACE with the "every
noun1 is a noun2" schema is ok, but the differentia-part of definition
is also needed. Lets take Aristotle's example "Man is an animal whose
nature it is to live in a polis". Can it be put into ACE as "Every man
is an animal and lives in a city."? Does it follow, that if an animal
lives in a city, he's indeed a man? :)

And one question concerning ACEWiki - is there a sandbox (like the
MediaWiki has), eg an article where all the intrested parties can
test?

Regards,
Martin

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Tobias Kuhn <t.kuhn at gmx.ch> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One frequent pattern are subclass-statements:
>
>   Every [noun1] is a [noun2].
>
> Note that it must be "every" and not "a". In your case:
>
>   Every DoS is a cyber-attack.
>
> (I assume that the words are in the lexicon. Otherwise, they have to be properly prefixed.)
>
> For your second statement, I don't see a simple pattern. I would state it like this:
>
>   If a DoS successfully attacks a system then not every intended-user of the system can use a
> computer-resource of the system.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Tobias
>
>
>
> Martin Luts wrote:
>> Saluton!
>>
>> Are there patterns / best practices available for using ACE sentences
>> and constructions for certain "everyday" use-cases, like giving
>> definitions?
>> I'm helping to create a cyber warfare dictionary and we are piloting
>> ACE, among Semantic Media Wiki and others. Lets take for example the
>> concept "Denial-of-service attack = is an attempt to make a computer
>> resource unavailable to its intended users". The type of definition
>> used here is giving definitsion of concept DoS by genus-differentia,
>> genus being here "an attempt/a cyber-attack" and differentia -
>> "(purpose is) to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended
>> users". First steps made, we came to:
>> A n:DoS is a n:cyber-attack.
>> #If it (shoul reference to DoS, not to cyber-attack) is successful
>> then some n:intended-users cannot use a n:computer-resource.
>> If DoS is successful then it is false that all n:intended-users can
>> use a n:computer-resource.
>>
>> I very much appriciate if anybody can help me (and future users:) to
>> state some 5-10 patterns for main definition types.
>>
>>
>> All the best,
>> Martin Luts
>> eliko.ee Competence Center, researcher
>> skype: martinluts
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