Can you guess the source.

Posted by Marcus G. Daniels on Apr 18, 2007; 2:09am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Can-you-guess-the-source-tp523696p523743.html

Phil Henshaw wrote:
> So maybe the question of abstract v. real categories could provide
> plenty to talk about.
>  
Or perhaps how to take a lot of talk (or papers) and mine it for strict
or fuzzy categories that a computer could use, e.g. software like
http://www.opencyc.org

I think that common sense knowledge and reasoning (above) combined with
careful ontological coding work by librarians and domain experts is a
necessary feature for automated learning of useful abstract categories  
from scientific texts (and in turn scientific semantic web applications)