[Person-ontology] OWL for exchanging ontologies

[Pat Hayes]

>Pat
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>I think the choice of representation should be done later
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>I disagree.
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>I would have been able to predict that :-)
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>Axioms must be written in a
>representation language, for example; and
>comparisons with existing ontologies must involve
>aligning the languages they are written in. it is
>a mistake to think that comparisons can be
>meaningfully made across different, perhaps
>semantically incompatible, formal notations.
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>No they must not.
>They can be written in natural language first

You can write sentences in natural language and come to an agreement 
on them. And this is often a very sensible thing to do, of course. 
But this is NOT writing axioms or comparing ontologies.

Sorry, this is not a matter for debate, it is a hard technical fact. 
If you do not know this, then you do not know enough about ontology 
engineering. Agreement on 'the facts' expressed informally is where 
ontology engineering starts, not where it ends.

Pat

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