DOLCE: Making basic ontological choices: the DOLCE experience invited talk by Dr. Nicola Guarino (Laboratory for Applied Ontology in Trento, Italy) on 02/02/2006

* Subject andquot;Making basic ontological choices: the DOLCE experienceandquot; Ontolog Invited Speaker Presentation by Nicola Guarino * Agenda Dr. Nicola Guarino, from the CNR Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA) in Trento, Italy will be presenting to the community. His talk is entitled: andquot;Making basic ontological choices: the DOLCE experienceandquot; * Date Thursday, February 2, 2006 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki details page http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_02_02 * Abstract (by Nicola Guarino) I would like to organize this talk in three parts: (JLQ) i) a short introduction on the role of axiomatic, foundational ontologies; ii) a discussion on the basic ontological choices available, and on the need to establish systematic links and comparisons among them; iii) a presentation of the basic DOLCE choices in the light of the above discussion.