Sweetening WORDNET with DOLCE

Example from the LOOM WORDNet Knowledge Base. At the beginning, we assumed that the hyponymy relation could simply be mapped onto the subsumption relation and that the synset notion could be mapped into the notion of concept. Both subsumption and concept have the usual description logic semantics (Woods and Schmolze 1992). LOOM WORDNET knowledge base are reported in table 1. Fig-ORDNET's noun top Under Territorial_-Dominion, we find Macao and Palestine together with Trust_Territory. The Trust_Territory synset, defined as "a dependent country, administered by a country under the supervision of United Nations," denotes a general kind of country rather than a specific country such as Macao or Palestine.