Thursday, September 16, 2004
Mapping WordNet to the SUMO Ontology
Mapping WordNet to the SUMO Ontology
"Introduction
Ontologies are becoming extremely useful tools for sophisticated software engineering. Designing applications, databases, and knowledge bases with reference to a common ontology can mean shorter development cycles, easier and faster integration with other software and content, and a more scalable product. Although ontologies are a very promising solution to some of the most pressing problems that confront software engineering, they also raise some issues and difficulties of their own. Consider, for example, the questions below:
SUMO (Suggested Upper Merged Ontology), which has been proposed as the initial version of an eventual Standard Upper Ontology (SUO). We will then describe the popular, free, and structured WordNet lexical database. After this preliminary discussion, we will describe the methodology that we are using to align WordNet with the SUMO. Finally, we will close this paper by demonstrating how this alignment of WordNet with SUMO will provide answers to the questions posed above."
"Introduction
Ontologies are becoming extremely useful tools for sophisticated software engineering. Designing applications, databases, and knowledge bases with reference to a common ontology can mean shorter development cycles, easier and faster integration with other software and content, and a more scalable product. Although ontologies are a very promising solution to some of the most pressing problems that confront software engineering, they also raise some issues and difficulties of their own. Consider, for example, the questions below:
- How can a formal ontology be used effectively by those who lack extensive training in logic and mathematics?
- How can an ontology be used automatically by applications (e.g. Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing applications) that process free text?
- How can we know when an ontology is complete? In this paper we will begin by describing the upper-level ontology
SUMO (Suggested Upper Merged Ontology), which has been proposed as the initial version of an eventual Standard Upper Ontology (SUO). We will then describe the popular, free, and structured WordNet lexical database. After this preliminary discussion, we will describe the methodology that we are using to align WordNet with the SUMO. Finally, we will close this paper by demonstrating how this alignment of WordNet with SUMO will provide answers to the questions posed above."
2 Comments:
The main web site for SUMO is http://www.ontologyportal.org
By 
Adam Pease, at
11:51 AM
Ok. I've changed the reference to a PDF that I found by going to the main website for SUMO. And I also put a reference to the main site.
By John Black, at
8:54 PM
