Taxonomy issues

[Roy Williams]

> When I attended the Sematic Web Workshop at Stanford last year, there
> was a clear distinction between the knowlege-representation(KR), "a
> priori ontology" people and the "emergent behavior" people. The KR
> folks build us systems that make sense, but sometimes cannot handle
> flexible or fuzzy classification schemas. The emergent behavior folks
> build systems that can perhaps handle the fuzziness of the real world,
> but occasionally spout nonsense. Hmmm.

A great advantage of an emergent behaviour system is that the computers do
the work, and there is no need to hire a librarian who is also an expert in
astronomy.

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