Terminological and linguistic draft

measures of the evolution of catalytic indexical

I heard a presentation by Dr. Woods at Uni Maryland in 1996 or 1997.

Even then the work on automated generation of taxonomy was advanced in at least his work.

I was also deeply into an investigation of the use of Oracle's ConText engine (formerly Artificial Linguistics) and had some discussions with Kelly Wycal whose patent was the basis for the ConText multi-pass parser and thematic analyzer.

How do these technologies compare with Stratify (which In-Q-Tel is investing in) or Applied Technical Systems NdCore (which is deployed at INSCOM)? Given the requirement for memetic science and technology

http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/MST/home.htm

how does one measure the fidelity of these conceptual indexers.

http://www.bcngroup.org/area2/KSF/Notation/notation.htm

One of the questions posed by the proposal on Twenty First Century Computing

http://www.ontologystream.com/beads/nationalDebate/thirtytwo.htm

is why has the best work been left behind and under developed, while a great deal of money is spend on technology transitions between one form of form technology to another form of poor technology.

The answer that we are suggesting is that computer science itself has been very confused and at odds with some of natural science, in spite of the glamour given to computer science through massive federal funding at NSF, NIST and DARPA.

Ok, so we have all heard this before.

I suggest that the only real obstacle to a project like the one referenced above is the absence of a show of unity by those who are know to have leading contributions.

So perhaps we can each read a short pdf on Dr. Woods work

http://research.sun.com/techrep/1998/smli_tr-98-69.pdf

and make comments on this in light of the questions that are beginning to be discussed by John Mallery, Richard Ballard and anyone who feels that the issues can be exposed in a positive fashion.