ontology

It's very hard to make a 5 level deep ontology not break down.

These discussion nodes should be linked to the ontology, rather than the brand of book.

But, and I say this with love and twenty years' experience, for fucksake: take the time to plan a sensible ontology and stick with it.

Sounds like a much simplified version of Douglas Lenat's Cyc project [1], which has been going since the mid eighties and is attempting to build a structured knowledgebase/ontology of everyday knowledge.

They have armies of legally-trained professionals who read cases as they come out and annotate them with "head notes" which give summaries of the case and index the case into Lexis's or West's legal ontology.

The problem is of course, that we still map these different effects to the human perceptible colors, and then use a human brain and a ontology shaped by human perception to understand the resulting picture.

It seems that this course's curriculum centers on the hardware/algorithmic/mathematical level more than the semantics and ontology of modern object programming.

There is no reasonable way to automatically split a person name in meaningful parts, because there is no such thing as a single universal ontology of meaningful name parts that will fit everyone.

Indeed, the entire ontology of the marketplace would be constantly in flux, making "in the long run" free market approaches mostly impotent as compared with collective action that directly deals with the problems we face right now.

"By 2008 a whole suite of theoretical ideas about folksonomy, crowdsourcing, faceted infomation retrieval, collaborative editing and emergent ontology had been implemented by a bunch of friendly people so that they could read about Kirk drilling Spock.