Re: SUO: Papers submitted to the IJCAI SUO workshop
Nicola,
I think that's a good idea. We didn't get a lot of papers so far so I
need to check with IJCAI about whether they'll allow us to run the
workshop. It's not too late if someone wants to submit another paper. We
do have a library of relevant documents at http://suo.ieee.org and I would
agree that more relevant documents would be welcome. I would especially
welcome documents that propose formal theories which either could be merged
with the existing content, or describe in precise detail, possible
alternate approaches.
Adam
At 11:46 PM 3/10/2001 +0100, Nicola Guarino wrote:
>A few weeks ago we submitted a paper to the IJCAI SUO workshop, entitled
>"Understanding Ontological Distinctions", retrievable from
>
>http://www.ladseb.pd.cnr.it/infor/Ontology/Papers/IJCAI2001final.pdf
>
>I don't know how many papers have been submitted; I think that they should
>be made available to the SUO list, independently of any formal review process.
>
>I believe that contributions in the form of papers (which can evolve, of
>course) are much more effective than long series of related messages;
>personally, I would welcome less messages and more documents. As I have
>suggested to James (and as has been proposed many times by Matthew and
>Chris Partridge) we should maintain a library of these documents,
>independently of any formal recognition from the whole group.
>
>Notice that our paper is not to be intended to be developed into the final
>SUO standard, but just to help clarify some methodological aspects and
>some general distinctions. It has been written in a hurry, and probably
>there is too much stuff in; but I think it is better than a series of
>scattered email messages.
>
>Here is the paper's abstract:
>
>The main goal of this paper is to present a systematic methodology for
>selecting general ontological categories to be used for multiple practical
>purposes. After a brief overview of our basic assumptions concerning the
>way a useful top-level ontology should be linked to language and
>cognition, we present a set of formal (i.e., domain-neutral) primitive
>relations that we believe play a foundational role. On the basis of these
>relations we define a few formal properties, which combined together help
>to understand and clarify the nature of many common ontological distinctions.
>
>All the best,
>
>-- Nicola
>
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