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Mills has been one of the very few who have focused on
the business value of ontologies and semantic technologies, and his
perspective/message is important.
He has been interacting with Doug Lenat since yesterday to
craft a sound message, and this will continue through Wed.
By the way, I am not an apologist: I just think there is
real value in having someone describe the business potential/necessity for our
technologies.
Thanks,
Leo
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I wrote:
I don't think Mill's piece is SO bad, he clearly
has a vague idea of upper-level ontologies, a vaguer idea of axiomatic
ontologies, and is definitely against common UO. Explaining him the role of
axiomatic ontologies is probably more important than convincing him on the
utility of a common ontology....
...in addition, he points the
role of evaluation, which is something we should explicitly address in our
meeting.
Nicola
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