Comments
There are two periods at
(2S6D)
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making the case to a variety of stakeholders.
(2S6F)
and several sentences below
that also refer to stakeholders -
If the pitch is being given
these are not stakeholders yet, they have not invested anything yet. However,
they could benefit and become stakeholders in the future. Could the
first sentence change to "....potential beneficiaries and future
stakeholders".
There are a number of
sentences below where "stakeholder" is not always necessary
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They provide a set of common
problems that ontologies can be used to
solve and value propositions.
in (2S6X)
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A fourth track was devoted to exploring longer
term idea that may require further research, but which is feasible nevertheless.
This was the Grand
Challenges track (led by RamSriram, ErnieLucier and AldenDima). (2S70)
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Finally, there was an
over-arching track for Strategy
(championed by MatthewWest and PeterYim). How to put together all the materials gathered
and present them in the most effective way to the appropriate stakeholder? I
highlight Two of the results
can be highlighted that emerged from this track. First, the realization
that....
in (2S71)
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"Ontology
does for machines what the World Wide Web did for people." SteveRay (2S73)
And a few
other quotes below should all be italic and attributed
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In summary there were 5 tracks:
Case Studies, Ontology Usage Framework, Value Metrics, Strategy and Grand
Challenges.
Needs to
match the order of the 5 tracks as listed above with Strategy last (or reorder
above)
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In the rest of the communique, we will highlight
some of the more important conclusions from the tracks and email discussions.
This will also elaborate a bit more on the four main themes above. In doing so, some of
the tracks will be touched on more than others. Please refer to the track
links for further information. (2S7A)
Either strike
"four main" and just say themes, or change to five tracks
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- Apply machine-learning, data-mining
and other scale-based automatic techniques for the semantic document
processing and advanced analytics in fields such as law, medicine, science,
defense, and intelligence (2S7I)
Listing the
fields may be limiting.
Or, can
healthcare or something in the humanities be added for a broader
spectrum?
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Fundamentally, ontology is about reaching agreements on
what things mean in machine processable
form.
in (2S7U)
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When no-one knows on what anything
means and there are so many systems that
are in production,
the key to enabling a company
an organization of any size to do the same things more efficiently
in (2S7V)
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Finally,
attached is from a separate thread about whether or not the fire fighters case
study is using ontologies
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