Ontologies and Reality: Practical and Philosophical Issues

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Ontologies and RealityPractical and
Philosophical Issues

• Christopher Brewster, Alexiei Dingli and
• Yorick Wilks
• Natural Language processing Group,
• Department of Computer Science
• University of Sheffield

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A Story

• John Wilkins (1614-1672)
• A founder of the Royal Society
• Book An Essay Towards a Real Character and
  Philosophical Language, London, 1668
• An Ontology
• A Thesaurus
• A system of shorthand

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Tutorial Components

• Building Ontologies from Texts (C. Brewster)
• Populating Ontologies for the Semantic Web (A.
  Dingli)
• Ontotherapy (Y. Wilks)
• Ontologies, the Semantic Web and the Frame
  Problem(C. Brewster)