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From: "Matthew West" <dr.matthew.west@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:35:41 -0000
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Dear Fabian,    (01)

Actually both of these are benefits.    (02)

> I don't think that the benefit of ontologies is necessarily a better
> understanding of particular problem domains. This might be sometimes
> the
> case, but the main reason that people are interested in ontologies
> seems
> to be to me that they want to solve information exchange/
> interoperability problems.    (03)

MW: I think that information exchange is where the volume is in ontology
use, however, even for this, improving understanding of the domain is often
a necessary step in achieving interoperability.
> 
> I tried to integrate your proposal with the existing text. Against my
> better judgment I gave it a try and rephrased the introduction in a way
> that explains what ontology is and what its benefits are. I am sure I
> will regret that very soon.    (04)

MW: You have the unfortunate position of camel maker :-)    (05)

Regards    (06)

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