Title: YAMATO:Yet Another More Advanced Top-level Ontology
Riichiro Mizoguchi
ISIR, Osaka University
http://www.ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/

Abstract

Upper ontology plays a critical role in ontology development by
providing developers with a guideline of how to view the target domain.
Although some upper ontologies such as DOLCE, BFO, GFO, SUMO, CYC, etc.
are already developed and extensively used, a careful examination of
them reveals some room for improvement in a couple of respects. This
paper discusses YAMATO : Yet Another More Advanced Top-level Ontology
which has been developed intended to cover three features in Quality
description, informational objects and Processes/Events, respectively,
in a better way than existing ontologies. In my talk, I will discuss
fundamental characteristics of YAMATO as well as our role theory. Role
theory explains how to deal with roles such as wife/husband, president,
teacher, murderer, cause/effect, symptom, etc. which exist in the real
world in a different way from ordinary types such as human, family,
school, etc. A convincing method for property description is necessary
for interoperability of all kinds of data. Without knowing how processes
are different from events, no one can build a good model of dynamism of
the real world. I hope my talk will give audience in-depth understanding
about the utility of YAMATO and my role theory.