Re: SUO: Peer-to-peer interoperability of ontologies
In message:
http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg08153.html
Danny Ayers wrote :
> The early colour theories were a way away from what is accepted as
> scientific fact nowaday, but the painters that followed these sciences were
> still capable of good work. Even if the ontological palette isn't God's own
> RGB or CMYK (both essentially arbitrary choices that happen to be good with
> human vision)... ok, SUO has burnt umber instead of red, this isn't a major
> drawback as long as the applications form their opinions based on good
> information (the painter uses her eyes).
>
> There are ontologies and applications. If both are rigid then the system
> will find a locked groove and stay there (ok, perhaps chaotically). If
> either can be fuzzy (using a flexible interpretation) or woolly (using a
> flexed term) then we can get somewhere. Don't get me wrong, I see no reason
> not to try Jean-Luc's path, I simply can't think offhand how one might
> implement such a system. Rigid definitions, flexible interpretation is
> pretty easy to do using any number of certainty factor/probabilistic etc etc
> approaches.
No one including myself can "think offhand how [to] implement such a system"
*unless* one knows for which kind of applications it is intended.
This is the "painter's eyes"!
One of my main lines of critiscism about SUO is that it's goals are too
broadly and fuzzily defined.
Sometimes it verges on solving the problems of translating natural languages!
At other places, at rendering theorem provers obsolete!
Are you serious?
Psychotropic drugs are illegal in the US and most other places, don't get caught.
The most urging need is to delineate more precisely the intended application domain.
(it that about what you meant Danny?)
Best.
-- Jean-Luc Delatre
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