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A plea for complex categories in ontologies

Authors :
Arapinis
Alexandra
Vieu
Laure
Italian National Research Council (CNR)
MEthodes et ingénierie des Langues, des Ontologies et du DIscours (IRIT-MELODI)
Institut de recherche en informatique de Toulouse (IRIT)
Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (UT1)
Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3)
Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP)
Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (UT1)
Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS (FRANCE)
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR (ITALY)
Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - Toulouse INP (FRANCE)
Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier - UT3 (FRANCE)
Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès - UT2J (FRANCE)
Université Toulouse 1 Capitole - UT1 (FRANCE)
Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse - IRIT (Toulouse, France)
Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - INPT (FRANCE)
Source :
Applied Ontology, Applied Ontology, IOS Press, 2015, vol. 10 (n° 3-4), pp. 285-296. ⟨10.3233/AO-150156⟩, Applied ontology 10 (2015): 285–296. doi:10.3233/AO-150156, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Arapinis, Alexandra and Vieu, Laure/titolo:A plea for complex categories in ontologies/doi:10.3233%2FAO-150156/rivista:Applied ontology/anno:2015/pagina_da:285/pagina_a:296/intervallo_pagine:285–296/volume:10
Publication Year :
2015
Publisher :
IOS Press, 2015.

Abstract

International audience; This paper investigates an issue at the interface between language and ontology. It is argued that the phenomenon of 'inherent polysemy' observed in lexical semantics for nouns such as book or country actually is a deeper phenomenon grounded on specific ontological relations involving the entities referred to. It is shown that this phenomenon emerges not only in language but also in most available ontologies. Beyond the 'dot types' used in some linguistic theories to account for logical polysemy, it is proposed to introduce 'complex categories' in ontologies in order to solve incoherence and inconsistency issues appearing when this phenomenon is not acknowledged and to characterize complex categories on the basis of formal ontology relations.

Details

ISSN :
18758533 and 15705838
Volume :
10
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Applied Ontology
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....18eb8119dc2eb947e6965b5bd545f7f7
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3233/ao-150156