SLIDE 1 Upper-Ontologies a closer look
Fausto Giunchiglia and Mattia Fumagallli
University of Trento
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Outline
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Why not start from scratch?
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Build your ontology faster
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Build a better ontology
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Enhanced Clarity
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Improved accuracy
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Reduced complexity
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What to look for in a Upper Ontology
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Ontological Commitment
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Tradeoffs: Academic vs. Industry
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Available Resources
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Linguistic resources
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WordNet (see next class)
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Domain Specific Narrow Scope Ontologies
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Dublin core
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Good relations
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Broadly Reusable Ontologies
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Upper ontologies
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Cyc and OpenCyc
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Cyc and OpenCyc
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Cyc: Industrial Relevance
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UMBEL
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SUMO
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Sumo
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SUMO: Industrial relevance
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DBPedia/Yago
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DBPedia
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DBPedia: Industrial Relevance
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DBPedia: Industrial Relevance
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Schema.org
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Schema.org
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Schema.org: Focus on Usability
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Schema.org: Community Effeort
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Schema.org: Recent Work
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Schema.org: Lesson learned
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Schema.org: Process
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Schema.org: Versioning
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Schema.org vs Google Knowledge Graph?
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Schema.org is an Upper Ontology
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DOLCE
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DOLCE: Fundamentals
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DOLCE: Core Restriction
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DOLCE
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BFO (Basic Formal Ontology)
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Roots and History of BFO
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Principal features of BFO
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BFO and DOLCE share common philosophical roots
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BFO: TOP Level Class Hierarchy
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Users of BFO (Consortia)
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BFO (Summary)
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What kind of top-level ontology?
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Expressivity and Inference
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Understandability
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Understandability
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Question for Discussion
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Acknowledgments
These slides have been inspired by (or reuse) (possibly adapted) content included in the following material: “Upper Ontologies a brief tour of what is available by Michael Uschold (www.semanticarts.com)”