[Sigia-l] Web of Meaning

[Eric Scheid]

On 11/10/04 6:03 AM, "rdalter" <rdalter at yahoo.com> wrote:

> WM> "We have a language in which to write an ontology," says Heflin,
> WM> "but we don't know how to properly combine [distributed]
> WM> ontologies, or what to do when ontologies are contradictory. We
> WM> need an environment that people can search in that resolves
> WM> contradictions meaningfully."
> WM>
> WM> Heflin wants to look at ways of partitioning the Web into useful
> WM> subsets so users can determine which ontology to use when they
> WM> have a query and can find an ontology that will point them to the
> WM> web page that is most suited to the perspective of their search.

About two years ago I was thinking about the same thing - how to integrate
formal taxonomies into synthetic taxonomies (clustering)...

    http://www.iawiki.net/ComparingTaxonomies

No real answers found (it's a hard problem), but plenty of additional
keywords to try searching on, and even a couple of links to studies.

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