Dear Mike and Nicola, (01)
I can be stronger than that, having an upper ontology dramatically
reduces the cost of reverse engineering existing systems to discover
their ontology. (02)
Regards (03)
Matthew (04)
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> Nicola Guarino
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> To: Upper Ontology Summit convention
> Subject: Re: [uos-convene] The Big Elephant...
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> On Mar 2, 2006, at 4:26 PM, Uschold, Michael F wrote:
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> >
> > MIkeU said:
> >
> >> Oh, and by the way, the big elephant in the room is the fact that:
> >>
> >> It is the rarest of exceptions these days, that an application even
> >> HAS an ontology, but hey, for the sake of this summit, shall we all
> >> pretend that they do?
> >>
> >
> > Nicola Replied:
> >
> > Either implicit or explicit, every application has it's own
> > "conceptualization" of a domain of interest. Surely, only
> in few cases
> > these conceptualizations are made explicit.
> > --
> >
> > True. The difficulty is if there is no explicit ontology or schema
> > for a
> > given application, then there is nothing that can be mapped TO a
> > common
> > UO. Hence, what is the value of a UO in this case?
>
> Clearly almost zero, in this case. Maybe an UO can help "reverse
> engineering" the implicit conceptualization, though.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nicola
>
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