@inproceedings{64c705d5a5a14ea794125d283ef6f692,
title = "Position paper: Towards the notion of gloss, and the adoption of linguistic resources in formal ontology engineering",
abstract = "In this paper, we first introduce the notion of gloss for ontology engineering purposes. We propose that each vocabulary in an ontology should have a gloss. A gloss basically is an informal description of the meaning of a vocabulary that is supposed to render factual and critical knowledge to understanding a concept, but that is unreasonable or very difficult to formalize and/or articulate formally. We present a set of guidelines on what should and should not be provided in a gloss. Second, we propose to incorporate linguistic resources in the ontology engineering process. We clarify the importance of using lexical resources as a {"}consensus reference{"} in ontology engineering, and so enabling the adoption of the glosses found in these resources. A linguistic resource (i.e. its list of terms and their definitions) shall be seen as a shared vocabulary space for ontologies. We present an ontology engineering software tool (called DogmaModeler), and illustrate its support of reusing of WordNet's terms and glosses in ontology modeling.",
keywords = "Deogmamodeler, Formal ontology engineering, Gloss, Lexical semantics, Ontologies and wordnet, Ontology, Wordnet",
author = "Mustafa Jarrar",
year = "2006",
month = may,
day = "23",
doi = "10.1145/1135777.1135850",
language = "English",
isbn = "1595933239",
series = "Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on World Wide Web",
pages = "497--503",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on World Wide Web",
note = "15th International Conference on World Wide Web ; Conference date: 23-05-2006 Through 26-05-2006",
}