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On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Mike Champion wrote:
> I think this gets to the heart of Simon's point: He's asserting, and
> I'm agreeing, that you DON'T need something like Cyc or a huge
> RDF ontology to disambuguate / figure out how to process markup
> via its context rather than an elaborate system of identifiers.
Yes, yes! man.
> You probably won't get the accuracy with a pattern matching
> approach as you do with an identity-determination approach, but
> you may well hit an 80/20 point in actual costs/benefits.
Aye, its production software we wants. Its extensible; give us some room
to extense it. There are domains that will find a good fit with an
ontological verneer overlaying a natural, hierarchical shape within the
data itself, e.g. aggregate census data reporting. Others will run most
smoothly on a suspension of precision, machine-crafted keys and IDs.
Many, dare I say most, have no need for either.
The semantic bus: its a big vehicle; it provides a local service; there
may be short walk from your stop to your destination.
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