"Graphical" Ontolingua?

Alain Rouge SYSECA <M1845@eurokom.ie>

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Date: 31 Aug 1993 11:03 +0100 (CET)
From: Alain Rouge SYSECA <M1845@eurokom.ie>
Subject: "Graphical" Ontolingua?
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Dear Mr FANO,
I share the same experience with my costumers. conceptual languages
at the level of KIF are not the right level to discuss with domain
experts or system analysts. We are unsig KADS to specify domain ontoloigies
and domain problem solving services for operational projects and even
surprisingly KADS has a big success, although the people I met were
real operational experts with no idea about the technology we proposed
to them. To me it's quite clear that the work carried out in the Knowledge
sharing Effort needs a graphics-based hat that can serve as a medium
between all participants of ontology elicitation. I think that works
carried out in the KSE answers the next step (ie after the arrival
of informal graphics-based conceptual modelling languages) and since
their expectation is in the long term, I believe they adopted the
right position.This also means that it our job (ie industrials) to
see how such approaches can be adopted in the short term in industry.
Regards. Alain.