[Corpora-List] WordNet vs Ontology

[Michal Ptaszynski]

Hi Kiril and others

Just a small thought. 

> - 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)


This definition makes me wonder - what is NOT an ontology? If even a simple lexicon is also an ontology, most of papers in NLP and CL describe research with the use of ontologies, even unintentionally. 

Best,
--
Michal Ptaszynski

Dnia 6 sie 2014 o godz. 19:43 "Kiril Simov" <kivs at bultreebank.org> napisał(a):

> 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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