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Towards a standard upper ontology

Niles, Ian, Pease, Adam·2001·Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Volume 2001
DOI 10.1145/505168.505170
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Abstract — The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) is an upper level ontology that has been proposed as a starter document for The Standard Upper Ontology Working Group, an IEEE-sanctioned working group of collaborators from the fields of engineering, philosophy, and information science. The SUMO provides definitions for general-purpose terms and acts as a foundation for more specific domain ontologies. In this paper we outline the strategy used to create the current version of the SUMO, discuss some of the challenges that we faced in constructing the ontology, and describe in detail its most general concepts and the relations between them. Categories & Descriptors — I.2.4 [Knowledge Representation Formalisms and

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Authors
Niles, I., & Pease, A.
Venue
Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Volume 2001
Publisher
ACM
Published
2001-10-17
Pages
2-9
DOI
10.1145/505168.505170
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conference paper
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en
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