nning.

Creating a standard upper level ontology - a reference ontology - will
be costly,  connecting it up to natural language (common English for
starters) will be very costly.   It is naive to think otherwise.  It is
also naive to think that the proposed merged ontology can serve as a
basis for a standard.  However, it is important intellectual capital
that should be encouraged and preserved.

Bob


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