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Evaluating ontological decisions with OntoClean

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Explosing common misuses of the subsumption relationship and the formal basis for why they are wrong.

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 45, Issue 2
        Ontology: different ways of representing the same concept
        February 2002
        98 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/503124
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