Towards a standard upper ontology Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:1133334, abstract = {The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) is an upper level ontology that has been proposed as a starter document for The Standard Upper Ontology Working Group, an IEEE-sanctioned working group of collaborators from the fields of engineering, philosophy, and information science. The SUMO provides definitions for general-purpose terms and acts as a foundation for more specific domain ontologies. In this paper we outline the strategy used to create the current version of the SUMO, discuss some of the challenges that we faced in constructing the ontology, and describe in detail its most general concepts and the relations between them.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Niles, Ian and Pease, Adam}, booktitle = {FOIS '01: Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems}, citeulike-article-id = {1133334}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=505170}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/505168.505170}, doi = {10.1145/505168.505170}, isbn = {1-58113-377-4}, keywords = {icil, semanticweb}, location = {Ogunquit, Maine, USA}, pages = {2--9}, posted-at = {2009-02-10 12:26:12}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Towards a standard upper ontology}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/505168.505170}, year = {2001} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1133334 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1133334 N2 - The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) is an upper level ontology that has been proposed as a starter document for The Standard Upper Ontology Working Group, an IEEE-sanctioned working group of collaborators from the fields of engineering, philosophy, and information science. The SUMO provides definitions for general-purpose terms and acts as a foundation for more specific domain ontologies. In this paper we outline the strategy used to create the current version of the SUMO, discuss some of the challenges that we faced in constructing the ontology, and describe in detail its most general concepts and the relations between them. CY - Ogunquit, Maine, USA SN - 1-58113-377-4 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 9 TI - Towards a standard upper ontology PB - ACM T2 - FOIS '01: Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems SP - 2 KW - icil KW - semanticweb AU - Niles, Ian AU - Pease, Adam PY - 2001/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/505168.505170 ER -