Re: SUO: Re: Applications & ontology [was: Negotiation Instead of Legislation]
At 11:42 AM -0600 2/26/02, Bill Andersen wrote:
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>One final point - With respect to the story I mentioned (which I will post
>as soon as I formulate it clearly)... I do find the lack of concrete
>examples where middle-level categories (e.g. those in SUMO) would be useful
>for real applications to be a bit disturbing. In a conversation with Mike
>Uschold a while back, he expressed the same lament to me. It would be
>useful for the ontology community to compile a set of such real-life "war
>stories" that can be readily summoned to validate what we're doing. If we
>don't then it's hard to see why we should be taken seriously, especially in
>the face of all the buzz generated by the "ontology-lite" interests that are
>feverishly working to develop web "ontology" standards and the like.
On my web page (under the heading "research activities") are several
powerpoint presentations (i'm having trouble converting them to HTML
at the moment). There is one that I gave at NIST (the 2 hour one)
that include some real examples taken from some of my ontology
building/analyzing experiences. They are mostly simple examples, but
they are real ones. They're mostly focused on the misuse of
subsumption, but not all.
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Christopher A. Welty http://www.cs.vassar.edu/faculty/welty/
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