Common Sense Ontology

A Common Sense Ontology is an ontology that is a common sense knowledge base (with common sense assertions).

• Example(s):
  • Cyc Ontology,
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Proper-Noun Ontology.
• See: Cyc Ontology, Domain-Specific Ontology, Top-Level Ontology.

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References

2005

• (Ramachandran et al., 2005) ⇒ Deepak Ramachandran, Pace Reagan, and Keith Goolsbey. (2005). “First-orderized Researchcyc: Expressivity and Efficiency in a Common-sense Ontology.” In: AAAI Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications.

1995

• (Dahlgren, 1995) ⇒ Kathleen Dahlgren. (1995). “A Linguistic Ontology.” In: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 43(5).
  • QUOTE: This paper defends the choice of a linguistically-based content ontology for natural language processing and demonstrates that a single common-sense ontology produces plausible interpretations at all levels from parsing through reasoning. The paper explores some of the problems and tradeoffs for a method which has just one content ontology. A linguistically-based content ontology represents the "world view" encoded in natural language.

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