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<DIV>Dear Liling,</DIV>
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<DIV>The book on Wordnet is:</DIV>
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<DIV>WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database</DIV>
<DIV>edited by</DIV>
<DIV>Christiane Fellbaum</DIV>
<DIV>MIT Press, 1998</DIV>
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<DIV>Thus, Wordnet is an electronic lexical database.</DIV>
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<DIV>Nicola Guarino in his lecture at the First OntoLex Workshop 2000</DIV>
<DIV>defines precision of ontologies like:</DIV>
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<DIV>- Lexicon (example, Machine Readable Dictionaries) - Vocabulary with NL
definitions</DIV>
<DIV>- Simple Taxonomy (example, Clasifications)</DIV>
<DIV>- Thesaurus (example, WordNet) Lexical relations</DIV>
<DIV>- Taxonomy plus related-terms (example, Relational Model) Light-weight
ontologies - Unconstrained use of arbitrary relations</DIV>
<DIV>- Fully Axiomatized Theory (Heavy-weight ontologies)</DIV>
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<DIV>Thus, WordNet is a kind of ontology.</DIV>
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<DIV>With best regards,</DIV>
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<DIV>Kiril</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=alvations@gmail.com
href="mailto:alvations@gmail.com">liling tan</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 06, 2014 12:57 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=corpora@uib.no
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Corpora-List] WordNet vs Ontology</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Dear corpora linguists,
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<DIV>There is recently a discussion on stackoverflow about "wordnet vs
ontology". I would like your perspective on several issues about wordnet and
ontology:</DIV>
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<DIV>- Is wordnet an ontology? If it is not an ontology, what is it?</DIV>
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<DIV>- What is the definition of an ontology? Is anything
(words/concept/entities) under a hierarchical structure some sort of linguistic
ontology?</DIV>
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<DIV>- Are linguistic onotology / information science ontology subjected to only
upper and domain ontology?</DIV>
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<DIV>- Any other comments about ontology and wordnet?</DIV>
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<DIV>Regards,</DIV>
<DIV>liling</DIV>
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