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Nicola Guarino
Researcher at National Research Council
Publications - 135
Citations - 13612
Nicola Guarino is an academic researcher from National Research Council. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ontology (information science) & Ontology. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 132 publications receiving 12988 citations. Previous affiliations of Nicola Guarino include European University Institute.
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What Is an Ontology
TL;DR: This paper shall revisit the previous attempts to clarify and formalize such original definition of (computational) ontologies as “explicit specifications of conceptualizations”, providing a detailed account of the notions of conceptualization and explicit specification, while discussing the importance of shared explicit specifications.
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Formal ontology, conceptual analysis and knowledge representation
TL;DR: The notion of the ontological level is introduced, intermediate between the epistemological and the conceptual levels discussed by Brachman, as a way to characterize a knowledge representation formalism taking into account the intended meaning of its primitives.
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Sweetening Ontologies with DOLCE
TL;DR: This paper introduces the DOLCE upper level ontology, the first module of a Foundational Ontologies Library being developed within the WonderWeb project, and suggests that such analysis could hopefully lead to an ?
Ontologies and Knowledge Bases. Towards a Terminological Clarification
TL;DR: It is argued for the need of clear terminological choices regarding the technical use of terms like "ontology", "conceptualization" and "ontological commitment" in the current debate in AI, and the possible confusion between an ontology intended as a particular conceptual framework at the knowledge level and a concrete artifact at the symbol level.
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Evaluating ontological decisions with OntoClean
Nicola Guarino,Chris Welty +1 more
TL;DR: Explosing common misuses of the subsumption relationship and the formal basis for why they are wrong and how to stop them.