Towards a standard upper ontology

  • Authors:
  • Ian Niles;Adam Pease

  • Affiliations:
  • Teknowledge Corporation, Palo Alto, CA;Teknowledge Corporation, Palo Alto, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Volume 2001
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) is an upper levelontology that has been proposed as a starter document for TheStandard Upper Ontology Working Group, an IEEE-sanctioned workinggroup of collaborators from the fields of engineering, philosophy,and information science. The SUMO provides definitions forgeneral-purpose terms and acts as a foundation for more specificdomain ontologies. In this paper we outline the strategy used tocreate the current version of the SUMO, discuss some of thechallenges that we faced in constructing the ontology, and describein detail its most general concepts and the relations between them.