Ontology
(Do a Google search on "ontology" by clicking on the title above)
Last Update: 15 September 2008
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An ontology of ice cream :-)
Aristotle's categories:
Ward, Ken (1998),
"Aristotle's Categories: It's All Greek to Me!"
Cohen, S. Marc (2003),
"Aristotle's Metaphysics"
Cohen, S. Marc (2004),
"Predication and Ontology: The Categories"
Jorge Luis Borges's categories of animals
Noy, Natalya F.
, &
McGuinness, Deborah L.
(2001),
"Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology"
Barry Smith
's ontology websites:
Ontology website
From his homepage
Especially recommended:
Smith, Barry
(2003),
"Ontology: An Introduction"
(with a video: "How to Build an Ontology")
Gruber, Tom,
"What Is an Ontology?
From the
Laboratory for Applied Ontology
:
Guarino, Nicola
(1995),
"Formal Ontology, Conceptual Analysis and Knowledge Representation"
,
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
43(5/6): 625-640.
Guarino, Nicola
, & Giaretta, Pierdaniele (1995),
"Ontologies and Knowledge Bases: Towards a Terminological Clarification"
, in N.J.I. Mars (ed.),
Towards Very Large Knowledge Bases
(IOS Press).
Guarino, Nicola (1997),
"Understanding, Building, and Using Ontologies"
[pdf],
International Journal Of Human-Computer Studies
46(2-3): 293-310.
conference version
(html)
"The Ontology Page"
Communications of the ACM
,
Vol. 45 (2002), No. 2: Ontology: Different ways of representing the same concept
See especially:
Castel, Felipe (2002),
"Ontological Computing"
,
pp. 29-30
.
Corazzon, Raul (2005),
"Ontology: A Resource Guide for Philosophers"
For fun, type "rapaport" into the search window :-)
Intensional KR:
Inten
s
ionality vs. Inten
t
ionality
Readings on intensionality (and the
de re/de dicto
distinction) in SNePS.
Time and Tense
Ethnophysiography
Contains link to:
Mark, David M.; & Turk, Andrew G. (2003), "Landscape Categories in Yindjibarndi: Ontology, Environment, and Language",
COSIT'03
.
CYC
Lenat, Douglas B.
(1995),
"CYC: A Large-Scale Investment in Knowledge Infrastructure"
,
Communications of the ACM
38(11): 33-38.
Ontology Problem from B&L
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William J. Rapaport
(
rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu
)
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