Re: SUO: Multi-Source Ontology (MSO) Draft Ballot Question
Rich,
The situation is even worse than that:
> I was surprised to see in Randee Tengi's response
> that only four part timers are working on WordNet
> at the present. It seems to me that such a valuable
> resource could be made very useful to the intense
> NLP work now beginning to be practical due to the
> exponentially increasing value of the internet and
> its contributors. A stronger ontological swing,
> properly funded of course, might make it so.
There is no budget for the WordNet project, and its
continued existence depends on intermittent government
grants, which depend on writing repeated grant proposals,
each of which depends on how the roulette wheel spins.
John