> >>[WK] Many of those biomedical terminologies that you have
>severely criticized
>>> -- e.g., MeSH, ICD, etc. -- work as very useful, flexible (what did you
>>> mean by that, by the way) framework for cataloguing e.g., the data which
>>> biologists are collecting about the entities of their interest. This
>>> somehow did not seem to you as serving the purpose of helping research.
>>> While they are certainly not ontologies in the sense you advocate, I
>>> have been told many times by down-to-earth biologists that what they
>>> need are not philosophically correct (whatever this would mean, whatever
>>> doctrine one adopts) ontologies, but ontologies that are good enough to
>>> make their work easier. I have heard complaints that overly
>>> philosophical ontologies are too distant from practical purposes, and
>>> make the work harder.
>>
>>[BS] For starters: I am working on X. Y and Z are
>> subtypes of X, V and W are parts of. I need all
>> the information about X, and so I need
>> information about Y and Z and V and W, too. MeSH,
>> ICD etc. will not necessarily give me this, at my
>> command. A good ontology would.
>
>[WK] For more advanced: I am working on X. People who are working on Y are
>usually also working on X, but they tend not to use the term 'X'. I
>want to retrieve literature on X. Chances are that articles tagged with
>Y are relevant. X does not have to be 'isa', 'partof', or the like, of
>Y. MeSH, ICD etc. provide such help. (01)
[KL] A well-designed probabilistic ontology could mediate the
interaction, and could learn from experience to improve its estimates
of the probability in a given context that a document tagged with Y
is relevant to someone working on X. (02)
Actually, to be honest, though I've stated this as a claim, it is
more of a hypothesis. That's because there do not yet exist any
well-designed probabilistic ontologies that I know of. That's because
only in the past decade or so have probabilistic languages started to
become expressive enough to represent bona fide ontologies. (03)
KBL (04)
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