Some Ontological Principles for Designing Upper Level Lexical Resources (1998)
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@MISC{Guarino98someontological,
author = {Nicola Guarino},
title = {Some Ontological Principles for Designing Upper Level Lexical Resources},
year = {1998}
}
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Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to explore some semantic problems related to the use of linguistic ontologies in information systems, and to suggest some organizing principles aimed t o solve such problems. The taxonomic structure of current ontologies is unfortunately quite complicated and hard to understand, especially for what concerns the upper levels. I will focus here on the problem of ISA overloading, which I believe is the main responsible of these difficulties. To this purpose, I will carefully analyze the ontological nature of the categories used in current upper-level structures, considering the necessity of splitting them according to more subtle distinctions or the opportunity of excluding them because of their limited organizational role.
