What are ontologies and where do they come from?
- Representation of what's "out there" (and how we talk about it), for example, SUMO and CYC
- Categories and where they come from
- A critique of traditional (engineered) ontologies: Shirky, 2005
- Alternatives to traditional ontologies
- Representation of how words in a language relate to one another, for example,
WordNet, FrameNet, semantic space models like Latent Semantic Analysis
- The units and where they come from
- The relations and where they come from
- The structure
- Representation of how words across languages relate to one another, for example,
Global WordNet Grid, the cut-break project
- The units and where they come from
- The relations and where they come from
- The structure
Practical issues
- Training alternative ontologies
- What stimuli?
- Crowdsourcing
- What about CLIR?
- Ambiguity and context
- How close do we have to be?
- Precision and recall
- Scratch-and-sniff?
