Ontotherapy, or how to stop worrying about what there is
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The paper argues that Guarino is right that ontologies are different from thesauri and similar objects, but not in the ways he believes: they are distinguished from essentially linguistic objects like thesauri and hierarchies of conceptual relations because they unpack, ultimately, in terms of sets of objects and individuals. However this is a lonely status, and without much application outside strict scientific and engineering disciplines, and of no direct relevance to language processing (NLP). More interesting structures, of NLP relevance, that encode conceptual knowledge, cannot be subjected to the “cleaning up” techniques that Guarino advocates, because his conditions are too strict to be applicable, and because the terms used in such structures retain their language-like features of ambiguity and vagueness, and in a way that cannot be eliminated by reference to sets of objects, as it can be in ontologies in the narrow sense. Wordnet is a structure that remains useful to NLP, and has within it features of both types (ontologies and conceptual hierarchies) and its function and usefulness will remain, properly, resistant to Guarino’s techniques, because those rest on a misunderstanding about concepts. The ultimate way out of such disputes can only come from automatic construction and evaluation procedures for conceptual and ontological structures from data, which is to say, corpora.
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