Re: SUO: Multi-Source Ontology (MSO) Ballot Question
I vote YES on the proposed motion.
I'm sorry I missed reading all of the "relevant" discussion on the
thread leading up to this motion in real-time. I toss the following
belated comments into the bonfire of the vanities:
* In order to survive the next 100 years, it IS necessary to sustain
the reproductive cycle that has kept us going for at least the first
150,000 years -- that is NOT happening in Western cultures (especially
Europe, but the U.S isn't that far behind). First things first. My
preferred model for natural language is not Arabic (though I'm sure the
NYT will have just as much objective viewpoint when it is eventually
expressed in Arabic that it does currently in English).
* Stem cells are fine. Relying on abortions to get them isn't. McCain
doesn't get it, at all.
* The people fighting Mars would have been fighting the moon in the
sixties -- it's the spin-offs we'll get from having a focused
science-based effort that'll be the payoff (we might even have a
majority of public-school-educated Americans who'll even be
semi-literate in math and science not unlike the jumpstart of JFKs that
made many of us what we are today).
* Saddam would have been a good source of funding, I take it. There is
a spare $3B lying around in Syria, I hear -- surplus from the U.N's Oil
for Palaces program.
* Somebody has to stand for what's right (regardless of whether those
wronged have a voice currently or not -- whether in the womb or
Totalitaria). There IS a right, despite what some like to believe.
Listen to JFK's inauguration speech sometime -- you'll think he's a
Republican (forty years later..)
Mike
On Feb 10, 2004, at 8:22 PM, jim.s3@juno.com wrote:
>
> ATTN Voting Members of IEEE P1600.1 Standard Upper Ontology Working
> Group:
>
> 1. Please acknowledge receipt of this ballot by Feb 17, 2004. But if
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> 2. Please cast a vote on the below question.
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> 3. Votes may be in the form of YES, NO, or ABSTAIN. The motion will
> pass
> if both (a majority of voting members either vote or acknowledge
> receipt
> of the ballot) and (YES votes are greater than [NO plus ABSTAIN
> votes]).
>
> 4. The period for voting will end at midnight EST on Mar 2, 2004. If a
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>
> Jim Schoening
> Chair, IEEE P1600.1 Standard Upper Ontology Working Group
> Jim.S3@juno.com
>
>
> ================================================
>
> Ballot Question:
>
> "The IEEE P1600.1 Standard Upper Ontology Working Group resolves to
> commence work on the Multi-Source Ontology (MSO) of the WebKB-2
> knowledge server (www.webkb.org)."
>
> Background:
>
> The features and rationales of WebKB-2 and its MSO have been previously
> introduced: http://www.webkb.org/doc/onSUOlist/m031202Schoening.html
> (plus subsequent messages stored in the same directory).
>
> In short, each object - a category (type or individual), a link between
> categories, or a more complex statement (graph) - has an associated
> source (user and/or document), and a Web user can
> 1) query, re-use and add new categories, links or graphs,
> 2) remove those she have created (and mainly only those),
> 3) "correct other graphs" (represent alternative beliefs) by using
> relations such as pm#corrective_specialization.
> Knowledge additions being centralized and incremental, the objects
> can be highly interconnected (hence, retrievable and re-usable) and
> each detected inconsistency or redundancy is solved by its author, thus
> guiding her to write more precise and (re-)usable knowledge.
> However, the users can (and are advised to) store and document
> their knowledge within Web files and ask WebKB-2 to parse these files
> (until no error is detected and the knowledge is commited in the KB).
>
> The MSO of WebKB-2 is currently mainly composed of an extension and
> correction of the noun-related part of WordNet 1.7 plus some top-level
> ontologies (mainly, extensions of those of John Sowa in his books of
> 1984 and 2000, DOLCE, OWL and various categories from other sources):
> details are accessible from http://www.webkb.org/doc/papers/iccs03/
>
> The integration of the SUMO is in progress. The 4D ontology named
> "Lifecycle integration Schema" is (and will remain) loosely integrated.
> This ontology, some general statements, and a few small domain
> ontologies
> are listed as example files in http://www.webkb.org/kb/
> A 4-level indented list of the upper part of the resulting taxonomy
> can by accessed via
> http://www.webkb.org/bin/categSearch.cgi?
> categ=pm%23thing&recursLink=%3E&
> depth=3&hyperlinks
> If the link encodings is a problem, add &longLinkNames at the end of
> the URL or see http://www.webkb.org/doc/onSUOlist/m031216phmartin.html
> An indented list of the relation types can be accessed via
> http://www.webkb.org/bin/categSearch.cgi?
> categ=pm%23elation&recursLink=%3
> E&hyperlinks
>
> Filtering on a particular source can be done, e.g. enter sumo#* in the
> Category Search interface:
> http://www.webkb.org/interface/categSearch.html
> (in the displayed taxonomies, dots replace categories not from the
> SUMO).
>
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