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contributor:
  email: cthoyt@gmail.com
  github: cthoyt
  name: Charles Tapley Hoyt
  orcid: 0000-0003-4423-4370
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description: DOLCE (Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering)
  is a foundational ontology developed as part of the WonderWeb Foundational Ontologies
  Library (WFOL).  The development of this library has been guided by the need of
  a reliable set of foundational ontologies that can serve as 1) astarting point for
  building other ontologies, 2) a reference point for easy and rigorous comparisons
  among different ontological approaches, and 3) a rigorous basis for analyzing, harmonizing
  and integrating existing ontologies and metadata standards (by manually mapping
  them into some general module(s) in the library). DOLCE is the first module of WFOL
  and it is not a candidate for a universal standard ontology. Rather, it is intended
  as a starting point for comparing and elucidating the relationships with the other
  modules of the library, and also for clarifying the hidden assumptions underlying
  existing ontologies or linguistic resources such as WordNet.  As reflected by its
  acronym, DOLCE has a clear cognitive bias, in the sense that it aims at capturing
  the ontological categories underlying natural language and human commonsense. DOLCE
  is an ontology that focuses on particulars in the sense that its domain of discourse
  is restricted to them. The project is complete, though the ontology remains available
  for use.
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homepage: http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/dolce/overview.html
keywords:
- classification
- computer science
- knowledge and information systems
- linguistics
- subject agnostic
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name: Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering
preferred_prefix: dolce
prefix: dolce
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publications: []
synonyms: []
