Re: [ontolog-forum] Event Ontology

Dear Azamat


Thank you for pointing out to that website. However, it is not my 
intention to discuss which one of the foundational ontologies is the 
"best" one. I looked into the white paper you provide on your web page, 
it contains some interesting references. However, it does not really 
help me to see the "real place of dolce in the system of upper 
ontologies" as the paper does not compare the upper ontologies. Our 
choice of DOLCE+DnS Ultralight was based on reading other related work 
and our own experience.

I was also wondering, if for the standard (upper) ontology you are 
proposing a modeling in OWL is available? I didn't find any on the web page.

But coming back to your statement that there is a "poor ontological 
study" of events. I would argue for the contrary: the concepts of event 
and object have a long history in philosophy and are well studied there. 
Based on this work and using DOLCE+DnS Ultralite as basis layer, we 
define in the Event-Model-F different ontology design patterns to 
express, e.g., causal relationships between events and interpretations 
of events. Here, the causality pattern defines a cause and an effect and 
is saying that causes and effects are events and only events. In 
addition, such a causal relationship holds under some justification and 
there is always such a justification. As there might be different 
interpretations of an event, the interpretation pattern allows to 
assemble different views onto that event.

Best

Ansgar

Received on Thursday, 3 September 2009 17:39:15 UTC