OntoMap: Ontologies for Lexical Semantics
Atanas Kiryakov, Marin Dimitrov · 2001
The upper-level ontologies are theories that capture the most common concepts, relevant to many tasks. These ontologies are used to represent the skeleton of the human common-sense in such a formal way that covers as many aspects of the knowledge as possible. The result often is a complex and abstract philosophic theory. Currently the evaluation of the feasibility of such ontologies is very expensive mostly because of technical problems such as different representations and terminologies used. Additionally, there are no formal mappings between the upper-level ontologies that could make their understanding, study, and comparison. As a result, the upper-level models are not widely used easier. We present OntoMap (http://www.ontomap.org) — a project with the pragmatic goal to facilitate an easy access, understanding, and reuse of such resources. It is also a good framework for research on lexical phenomena such as systematic polysemy.