Sweetening ontologies with DOLCE

Title

Sweetening ontologies with DOLCE

Creator(s)

Gangemi, Aldo

Guarino, Nicola

Masolo, Claudio

Oltramari, Alessandro

Schneider, Luc

Date

2002

Volume

2473

Pages

166-181

Publisher

Springer

Place Published

Berlin-Heidelberg,

ISBN

978-3-540-44268-4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45810-7_18

Zotero BiDiAr

https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/8AQSQCII/item-list

Abstract

In this paper we introduce the DOLCE upper level ontology, the first module of a Foundational Ontologies Library being developed within the WonderWeb project. DOLCE is presented here in an intuitive way; the reader should refer to the project deliverable for a detailed axiomatization. A comparison with WordNet's top-level taxonomy of nouns is also provided, which shows how DOLCE, used in addition to the OntoClean methodology, helps isolating and understanding some major WordNet's semantic limita- tions. We suggest that such analysis could hopefully lead to an "ontologi- cally sweetened" WordNet, meant to be conceptually more rigorous, cogni- tively transparent, and efficiently exploitable in several applications.