> I guess the serious question is whether the cost of a few laughable
> failures of the heuristic algorithms outweighs the cost of building
> ontologies maintaining a lot of semantic metadata in the instances?
> My guess is "no", by a couple orders of magnitude.
>
> Of course the cost-benefit calculation would be very different for a
> military system or a mission-critical enterprise system.
I wouldn't be so sure. You can spend billions on cataloguing all your
information and still make laughable mistakes.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
