- From: Mithun Sheshagiri <mits1@csee.umbc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 20:42:24 -0500 (EST)
- To: Ugo Corda <UCorda@SeeBeyond.com>
- Cc: <public-sws-ig@w3.org>
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Ugo Corda wrote: > At 13:54 -0500 12/17/03, Jim Hendler wrote: > > > all the useful tools I know of are human in the loop and partial-mapping based > [...] > > cross ontology reasoning is the thing that makes Semantic Web different from all > > other AI ontology work to date > > These statements make a lot of sense to me. At the same time, they do not sound very encouraging as far as the Semantic Web is concerned. I have heard this before. Well, the problem of ontology mapping was not introduced by the semantic web. Its been around for a very long time. Its just that the semantic web has brought it the fore front. > i> Unless the Semantic Web limits itself to a fairly small set of "canonical" ontologies (which is highly unlikely, given the open-ended nature of the Web itself), then the need of having humans in the loop seems to indicate that cross ontology reasoning within the Semantic Web is a very impractical goal right from the start. > > Ugo >
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