Oops... I should have mentioned that the issues I raised below are
on top of what Barry has in mind, which is the structure and content
of the ULO itself. Sorry 'bout that. (01)
On Feb 27, 2006, at 16:04 , Bill Andersen wrote: (02)
> Full agreement with Barry on his point. Two ways to make a ULO
> understandable are to try to educate users of it [hey, ontology
> crowd... who exactly are our "users" anyway?] or by hiding its
> action behind good tools, wizards, etc. Another approach, which I
> believe Adam Pease advocates and is a good idea, is to build a thin
> "middle layer" under the ULO and encourage the use of that. Such a
> middle layer contains terms closer to everyday experience. This
> approach warrants merit but is a big task as the job of determining
> adequacy/coverage for a mid-level is arguably more difficult than
> doing it for an ULO.
>
> On Feb 27, 2006, at 15:37 , Smith, Barry wrote:
>
>>>
>>> [Bill:] Precisely. There has come to be an elan associated with
>>> the use of logic because of the relative smaller priesthood that
>>> understands it vs more traditional approaches. But its just a
>>> tool and lots of bad things get built with good tools. This,
>>> BTW, is a MAJOR engineering reason to adopt a ULO approach -- by
>>> constraining the "imaginations" of domain ontologists, fewer
>>> mistakes get made. This has been our experience in every project
>>> we've done.
>> This is an important point -- but we will succeed in constraining
>> imaginations only to the degree that the adopters understand it.
>> Hence the ULO should be (or have a representation which is)
>> maximally intuitively acceptable/understandable.
>> Barry
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