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Thomas R. Gruber (1993). A Translation Approach to Portable Ontology Specifications. Knowledge Acquisition, 5(2), 1993, pp. 199-220.
This is the official Ontolingua paper, containing the fabled definition of ontology as a specification of a conceptualization.
This is the paper that first published the fabled definition of ontology as specification, with a theoretical grounding in AI agency and knowledge representation. This journal was merged into the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, and this paper was recognized as the highest cited article in the history of those journals.
Abstract: To support the sharing and reuse of formally represented knowledge among AI systems, it is useful to define the common vocabulary in which shared knowledge is represented. A specification of a representational vocabulary for a shared domain of discourse — definitions of classes, relations, functions, and other objects — is called an ontology. This paper describes a mechanism for defining ontologies that are portable over representation systems.
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