Re: Technical Editorship of SUMO
John,
Thanks for your kind words. LCC stands for "Language Computer
Corporation", a Dallas-based company doing research on NLP and related
stuff.
-Ian
>From: "John F. Sowa" <sowa@BESTWEB.NET>
>To: Ian Niles <ian_niles@HOTMAIL.COM>
>CC: jim.s3@JUNO.COM, standard-upper-ontology@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG
>Subject: Re: Technical Editorship of SUMO
>Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 11:15:12 -0400
>
>Ian,
>
>Good luck in your future endeavors.
>
>I realize that we have had many disagreements
>about SUMO and its overall goals, but I believe
>that you have done some very good work in putting
>it together.
>
>My major complaint has been that any monolithic
>ontology is too brittle to accommodate all the
>variations and modifications that inevitably arise.
>
>Given that caveat, I would hasten to add that the work
>in gathering, tailoring, and assembling the modules that
>went into SUMO shouldn't be wasted, since it demonstrates
>one promising arrangement. There are, however, an open-
>ended number of other ways of organizing modules to form
>a large ontology, and I believe that MSO or whatever may
>evolve from it is a good technology for accommodating
>SUMO, CYC, and many other ontology projects as a common
>resource, from which many other promising arrangements
>may be derived.
>
>John
>
>PS: What is LCC? Google says that there are 783,000
>hits, including Lansing Community College, London
>Cycling Campaign, Law Commission of Canada, Limerick
>County Council, Liquor Control Commission, etc.
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