Conceptual analysis of lexical taxonomies: the case of WordNet top-level

Authors:
Aldo Gangemi;Nicola Guarino;Alessandro Oltramari
Affiliations:
ITBM-CNR, Rome, Italy;LADSEB-CNR, Padova, Italy;LADSEB-CNR, Padova, Italy
Venue:
Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Volume 2001
Year:
2001

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Abstract

In this paper we propose an analysis and an upgrade of WordNet's top-level synset taxonomy. We briefly review WordNet and identify its main semantic limitations. Some principles from a forthcoming OntoClean methodology are applied to the ontological analysis of WordNet. A revised top-level taxonomy is proposed, which is meant to be more conceptually rigorous, cognitively transparent, and efficiently exploitable in several applications.