creators_name: Saba, Walid type: other datestamp: 2007-05-19 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:50 metadata_visibility: show title: A Note on Ontology and Ordinary Language ispublished: unpub subjects: comp-sci-lang subjects: phil-lang subjects: ling-comput subjects: ling-sem subjects: phil-mind subjects: phil-logic subjects: ling-prag subjects: comp-sci-speech subjects: phil-metaphys full_text_status: public keywords: Ontology, Commonsense Knowledge, Semantics abstract: We argue for a compositional semantics grounded in a strongly typed ontology that reflects our commonsense view of the world and the way we talk about it. Assuming such a structure we show that the semantics of various natural language phenomena may become nearly trivial. date: 2007-05 date_type: published refereed: FALSE referencetext: Asher, N. and Pustejovsky, J. (2005), Word Meaning and Commonsense Metaphysics, available from semanticsarchive.net Bateman, J. A. (1995), On the Relationship between Ontology Construction and Natural Language: A Socio-Semiotic View, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 43, pp. 929-944. Cocchiarella, N. B. (2001), Logic and Ontology, Axiomathes, 12, pp. 117-150. Davidson, D. (1980), Essays on Actions and Events, Oxford: Clarendon Press. Dummett. M. (1991), The Logical Basis of Metaphysics, Duckworth, London. Guarino, N. (1955), Formal Ontology in Conceptual Analysis and Knowledge Representation, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 43 (5/6), Academic Press. Hirst, G. (1991), Existence Assumptions in Knowledge Representation, Artificial Intelligence, 49 (3), pp. 199-242. Hobbs, J. (1985), Ontological Promiscuity, In Proc. of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Assoc. for Computational Linguistics, pp. 61-69, Chicago, Illinois, 1985. Lenat, D. B., Guha, R. V., 1990. Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems: Representation & Inference in the CYC Project. Addison-Wesley. Montague, R. (1960), On the Nature of certain Philosophical Entities, The Monist, 53, pp. 159-194. Rais-Ghasem, M. and Corriveua, J.-P. (1998), Exampler-Based Sense Modulation, In Proceedings of COLING-ACL '98 Workshop on The Computational Treatment of Nominals. Saba, W. S. (2007), Language, Logic and Ontology - Uncovering the Structure of Commonsense Knowledge, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, in press, doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2007.02.002. Smith, B. (2005), Against Fantology, In M. E. Reicher and J. C. Marek (Eds.), Experience and Analysis, pp. 153-170, Vienna: HPT&OBV. Sowa, J.F., 1995. Knowledge Representation: Logical Philosophical, and Computational Foundations. PWS Publishing Company, Boston. van Deemter, K., Peters, S. 1996. (Eds.), Semantic Ambiguity and Underspecification. CSLI, Stanford, CA citation: Saba, Walid (2007) A Note on Ontology and Ordinary Language. (Unpublished) document_url: http://cogprints.org/5544/1/ool_saba.pdf