type of http://dbpedia.org/page/Bachelor_of_Arts

Dear all,

I noticed that dbpedia:Bachelor_of_Arts, as well as other similar entities (dbpedia:Bachelor_of_Engineering, dbpedia:Bachelor_of_Science, etc.), is typed as dbpedia-owl:University
I would expect a type like �Academic Degree� but if you look at
dbpedia:Academic_Degree, its type is again dbpedia-owl:University

however, its definition is (according to dbpedia):

"An academic degree is a college or university diploma, often associated with a title and sometimes associated with an academic position, which is usually awarded in recognition of the recipient having either satisfactorily completed a prescribed course of study or having conducted a scholarly endeavour deemed worthy of his or her admission to the degree. The most common degrees awarded today are associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees.�

Showing that there are at least two different meanings associated with the term: college/university and title.
I thing that different meanings should be separated so as to allow applications to refer to the different entities: a university or a title.

At least for me this causes errors in automatic relation extraction...

Wdyt?

Valentina

Received on Monday, 13 October 2014 00:42:56 UTC