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Subject: Re: Taxonomies
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Date: Wed, 29-Aug-84 11:31:47 EDT
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From:  Stan Shebs <SHEBS@UTAH-20.ARPA>

Some of the most recent KR systems attempt to provide meta-taxonomies;
I know of RLL/Eurisko, MRS, and AGE, all Stanford products.  Am not
sure what LOOPS provides in the way of knowledge about representation
schemes (although one could build something to recommend whether a given
piece of information should be a logical assertion, an object, an instance
variable of an object, Lisp code, etc).

Meta-taxonomies are HARD.  The ability to create a taxonomy of some body of
knowledge implies that one has both a deep and broad understanding of that
body.  The creation of a meta-taxonomy implies that there is a similar

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