| Abstract |
In this presentation I will not discuss my own work but rather a cognitive theory that might be relevant to ontological theory. It is the work of Elisabeth Rosch on how people make categorizations; she posits that there exist so-called "natural categories" (classes/concepts) with special properties.
I will present her theory, and work by Rebecca Green on (a) automatically determining natural categories in thesauri; and (b) utilizing natural categories for mapping scenarios.
Further, I'd like to brainstorm with you about what more things you can do if you know which concepts in a hierarchy are natural categories. |