SUO: Re: Enhancing Data Interoperability with Ontologies...
Rich,
I was trying to make the point that
neither natural languages nor artificial
languages guarantee 100% successful
communication.
RC> So a wide comprehension NL question answering
> system isn't on the horizon, and would take
> an enormous investment to build up a knowledge
> base of world knowledge.
That's not what I said. What I was trying
to say is that perfect comprehension is
unattainable. And even if you use a perfectly
unambiguous source language, there is no
guarantee that what the author said is
what the author meant.
RC> Is that approach feasible?
A lot of things are feasible. Some things
work fairly well now, but nothing is as
good as we would like to see.
Summary: There's a lot of research left
to be done, a lot of trial and error is
necessary, don't expect any magic solutions
to everything, but we may get partial
solutions to some things that are somewhat
better than what we have.
John