The Roles of Roles
Missing in most lexicons and thesauri, only limited “hardwired” set if not:
- taxonomy, meronymy, synonymy, …
Essential elements for the designer and end-user in methodologies for understanding, design & population of an ontology (? NIAM, ORM, …)
- “describe world by communicating among users a set of instances of (semi-)formal sentence types”
? First class citizens of an ontology as carriers for“semantics” (UMLS; Cassidy ‘99: Roget-based Factotum®)