Hi Stavros --
As background for your investigation, you may be interested in the inferencing over a large database described in
http://www.reengineeringllc.com/ibldrugdbdemo1.htm
(a short Flash video)
Apologies if you have seen this before, and thanks for comments.
-- Adrian
Internet Business Logic
A Wiki and SOA Endpoint for Executable Open Vocabulary English
Online at
www.reengineeringllc.com Shared use is free
Adrian Walker
Reengineering
On 12/18/07, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Many companies (D&B etc.) sell databases of information about
companies including financial metrics, nicknames, major products,
competitors, suppliers, consumers, top executives, sector (taxonomy
node), acquisitions of companies, mergers, etc.
Does anyone on this list know of work on ontologies for this
sort of industry, company, and product structure information? The
taxonomy approach has all the standard problems with trees (is the
French steel industry taxonomized as a steel node somewhere under
France, or vice versa?) and there are all kinds of inference you'd like
to do: e.g. Wyeth makes Advil; Advil is a brand of ibuprofen; ibuprofen
is an analgesic; therefore Wyeth makes analgesics.
Thanks,
-s
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