DOLCE: A descriptive ontology for linguistic and cognitive engineering1

dolce, the first top-level (foundational) ontology to be axiomatized, has remained stable for twenty years and today is broadly used in a variety of domains. dolce inspired by cognitive linguistic considerations aims model commonsense view reality, like one human beings exploit everyday life areas as diverse socio-technical systems, manufacturing, financial transactions cultural heritage. clearly lists ontological choices it based upon, relies on philosophical principles, richly formalized, built according well-established methodologies, e.g. OntoClean. Because these features, most existing ontologies been develop or improve standards public domain resources (e.g. CIDOC CRM, DBpedia WordNet). Being foundational ontology, not directly concerned with knowledge. Its purpose provide general categories relations needed give coherent integrate knowledge, mediate across In 20 shown that applied can interoperability reference reality. This paper briefly introduces shows how use few modeling cases.