[Corpora-List] WordNet vs Ontology

[Krishnamurthy, Ramesh]

Isn't an ontology about 'reality', and a wordnet about 'natural language'?

Ontologies are impelled by taxonomic goals and logical relationships,
whereas natural languages are a form of human *behaviour*, whereby
their users seek to share and communicate with each other their own
*experience* (of 'reality')?

Language users are therefore not primarily motivated by taxonomic goals
or logical relationships, though elements of taxonomies and logic may of
course be observable in their language usage?

The confusion arises because words from natural languages are used
to name/describe the nodes and relationships in ontologies?

Words in natural languages are dynamic contributors to a process of
meaning creation which is strongly affected by the context of use.

Hence using a dynamic variable (a word) to name fixed nodes and stable
relationships in ontologies is a rather impractical endeavour?

best
ramesh

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