Sketch of an Ontology Underlying the Way we Talk about the World
J. Hobbs. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 43 (5-6):
819--830(November 1995)
DOI: 10.1006/ijhc.1995.1076
Abstract
A general structure is proposed for an underlying conceptualization of the world that is particularly well suited to language understanding. It consists of a set of core theories of a very abstract character. Some of the most important of these are discussed, in particular, core theories that explicate the concepts of systems and the figure-ground relation, scales, change, causality, and goal-directed behavior. These theories are too abstract to impose many constraints on the entities and situations they are applied to; rather their main purpose is to provide the basis for a rich vocabulary for talking about entities and situations. The fact that the core theories apply so widely means that they provide a great many domains of discourse with a rich vocabulary.
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