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Methodologies for the Reliable Construction of Ontological Knowledge

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Conceptual Structures: Common Semantics for Sharing Knowledge (ICCS 2005)

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This paper addresses the methodology of ontology construction. It identifies five styles of approach to ontologizing (deriving from philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics, AI/computational linguistics, and domain reasoning) and argues that they do not provide the same results. It then provides a more detailed example of one of the approaches.

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    Eduard Hovy

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    Marie-Laure Mugnier

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    Gerd Stumme

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Hovy, E. (2005). Methodologies for the Reliable Construction of Ontological Knowledge. In: Dau, F., Mugnier, ML., Stumme, G. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Common Semantics for Sharing Knowledge. ICCS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3596. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11524564_6

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