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Something else to consider. I've been reading Tim Bray's excellent blogs on searching. Sowa makes much of analogical means to detecting similarities. 1. Can analogical systems be used as adjuncts to search engines? 2. Given the position Tim seems to be taking that search engines don't get much bang for the buck out of some approaches to improving search results (using Google as the example), does the mean that the Semantic Web doesn't offer much that a search engine really needs, or is it the case that whereas a user searching the web gets little benefit, other applications would? What would these other applications be? Sowa makes much of the use of analogical reasoning as a means to create and then select among theories to apply to a situation? We make much here of "lessons learned" but these are in effect, "theories we apply" before we attempt to use logical means to argue our case. So perhaps one application is as a means to support argumentative debate by having a system that can look at cases and find precedents. Legal systems could use that. Another might be analysis of written works (lists and blogs come to mind) and look for similar positions taken for comparison to historical results. This becomes the "protect against what we know that just ain't so" system. Such a system might require loose searching then benefit by automated analysis that uses an analogical reasoning engine to sift and find the most relevant cases, then illustrate point for point comparison with results summarized. 1. Search for precedent cases. 2. Create theories. 3. Select among the best theories offered. 4. Create the case. Consider the thread started originally with a poor filtering engine for finding "bad words" or "bad sites". Such systems probably use word and site lists, but do not do word sense analysis or make cases for the classification. If a policy maker acted on these, they would also have to make the case. len
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