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Re: [ontology-summit] [Making the Case] Elevator Pitch

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From: "MacPherson, Deborah" <dmacpherson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 15:21:35 -0500
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OK - so scratch that. 
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"Ontology: Making Complexity Smaller and More Manageable"
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With acknowledgement that really difficult problems are in reasoning and 
language understanding
and in some domains dealing with images and geometry also
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DEBORAH MACPHERSON, CSI CCS, AIA
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[mailto:ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John F. Sowa
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Subject: Re: [ontology-summit] [Making the Case] Elevator Pitch
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On 2/2/2011 1:55 PM, MacPherson, Deborah wrote:
> Change:

> The number of laws and legal concepts is relatively small and discrete.

> The complexity comes from the world.

>

> To - something like:

> Even if the number of concepts and rules in an ontology is relatively 

> small and discrete, The purpose of ontological engineering is to manage 
>complexity that comes from the world.
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That's not what I meant.
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I wasn't claiming that a small ontology can manage a huge complexity.
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I was just saying that we don't yet have methods that are capable of managing 
that huge complexity, and that an ontology, by itself, won't help very much.
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The really difficult problems are in reasoning and language understanding.  An 
ontology can probably help, but we need to go far beyond the currently 
available tools.
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John
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