Conceptual structures: information processing in mind and machine
Conceptual structures: information processing in mind and machine
Synonymy and semantic classification
Synonymy and semantic classification
Representing biomedical knowledge in the UMLS semantic network
High performance medical libraries
Toward principles for the design of ontologies used for knowledge sharing
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: the role of formal ontology in the information technology
CYC: a large-scale investment in knowledge infrastructure
Communications of the ACM
FOIS introduction: Ontology---towards a new synthesis
Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Volume 2001
Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Special issue: Biomedical ontologies
A methodology for extending domain coverage in SemRep
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
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Throughout history, philosophers, scientists, and other scholars have named and organized the salient elements of the world. These efforts have led to conceptualizations that differ widely in both content and form. This paper argues that all conceptualizations are biased, both because they depend on the purposes for which they have been created, and because they are closely tied to the world view of their designers. This bias needs to be recognized, and its consequences need to be addressed if the conceptualizations are to be used for purposes other than those for which they were designed. The paper begins with a brief overview of the disciplines that have been concerned with conceptualizing particular domains. This is followed by a non-exhaustive, illustrative, historical perspective, and the paper concludes with the interesting case study of biological taxonomy.