[Corpora-List] WordNet vs Ontology

[Kiril Simov]

Dear Liling,

The book on Wordnet is:

WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database
edited by
Christiane Fellbaum
MIT Press, 1998

Thus, Wordnet is an electronic lexical database.

Nicola Guarino in his lecture at the First OntoLex Workshop 2000
defines precision of ontologies like:

- Lexicon (example, Machine Readable Dictionaries) - Vocabulary with NL definitions
- Simple Taxonomy (example, Clasifications)
- Thesaurus (example, WordNet) Lexical relations
- Taxonomy plus related-terms (example, Relational Model) Light-weight ontologies - Unconstrained use of arbitrary relations
- Fully Axiomatized Theory (Heavy-weight ontologies)

Thus, WordNet is a kind of ontology.

With best regards,

Kiril

From: liling tan 
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2014 12:57 PM
To: corpora at uib.no 
Subject: [Corpora-List] WordNet vs Ontology

Dear corpora linguists, 

There is recently a discussion on stackoverflow about "wordnet vs ontology". I would like your perspective on several issues about wordnet and ontology:

- Is wordnet an ontology? If it is not an ontology, what is it?

- What is the definition of an ontology? Is anything (words/concept/entities) under a hierarchical structure some sort of linguistic ontology?

- Are linguistic onotology / information science ontology subjected to only upper and domain ontology?

- Any other comments about ontology and wordnet?

Regards,
liling




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