The view from the trenches: issues in the ontology of restricted domains

  • Authors:
  • David D. McDonald

  • Affiliations:
  • Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, 201 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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

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Abstract

We consider the impact of strict processing limitations on thedesign of an ontology for information extraction from newswiretexts. We conclude that requiring online, real-time processingleads to a particular set of answers to fundamental issues ofrelation size and the choice of primary categories. We show how tosatisfy these requirements by using relational categories directlyduring analysis and by using a reified lattice of their partialsaturations that is annotated with the linguistic constructs usedto realize them.