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My question is, can the system detect that the answer is missing? The ontologists told us that experience in building these systems made them rely on behavioral observation as the means to detect when the system returns the right answer. In other words, like HTML, the design has many problems but it works for most of the cases it is designed for and we have extended it for others, and don't use it for some others. We don't need a theoretically complete system. We need one that gets some useful things done. Fact is, no one has tried knowledge bases at this scale. We can make predictions (negotiation and well-behaved agents are key) but we don't know how well this will work. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Danny Ayers [mailto:danny@p...] >It's not that such systems will return wrong answers - it's that there are >right answers they cannot find. How that would echo through a system or >whether users would even notice the missing information isn't clear. There are reasonable techniques for handling such circumstances - e.g. timing out ;-) I can't remember where but it has been said more than once that the web will never be perfect, if you allow this then the problems don't arise. I wonder if the thing you describe could also be expressed as a kind of halting problem???>
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