- From: Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 20:45:10 -0400
- To: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- CC: Jeff Heflin <heflin@cse.lehigh.edu>, www-rdf-logic@w3.org
Pat-- I think any society with central planning will be happy to provide more jobs for logicians; still plenty of salt mines to be dug in, I'm told :-) On a slightly (only slightly) more serious note, it seems to me that, in addition to the "ontology certification authorities", you'd also need to have "legality-of-ontology certification authorities" staffed with lawyers who would check to ensure that the ontologies used the proper legal phraseology (whatever the machine-interpretable version of that is) so that the "courts" (made up of agents) would properly interpret the resulting logical theories (say, if a dispute arose). Any ontology would have to pass both "authorities" to be certified. This would make sure that, while the ontology was bouncing back and forth (over and over again) between the lawyers and the logicians, the rest of us would be reasonably safe. --Frank pat hayes wrote: >> >> One other thing, I agree about the danger in staffing such organizations >> entirely with logicians, they would have to include domain experts as >> well. > > > Hey, we need more jobs for logicians. Don't muddy the water here. > > Pat -- Frank Manola The MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Road, MS A345 Bedford, MA 01730-1420 mailto:fmanola@mitre.org voice: 781-271-8147 FAX: 781-271-875
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