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1998
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Some Ontological Principles for Designing Upper Level Lexical Resources

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Some Ontological Principles for Designing Upper Level Lexical Resources
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 to 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.
Nicola Guarino
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Type Journal
Year 1998
Where CORR
Authors Nicola Guarino
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