Why Ontologies Are Not Enough for Knowledge Sharing

Knowledge sharing is difficult. One reason is that it is hard to decide how to describe a domainin a way which suits everyone with an interest in the knowledge. Tackling this problem has been acentral theme of the surge in ontological research over recent years. Unfortunately, getting an agreedontology is not the end of our problems, since the way we represent knowledge is intimately linkedto the inferences we expect to perform with it. This paper looks at some of the problems which...