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In order to create more eficient ontologies, the granularity has to be much<br />

iner. thus the distinction between wood that is used for construction and<br />

wood which normally is not used in this context could be clearer, as the<br />

number of direct links could be reduced. In the abovementioned example this<br />

distinction is made by means of multiple links from the central term: ‘pear’,<br />

‘oak’ and ‘beech’ have links to ‘tree’ as well as to ‘wood’ whereas ‘apple’ is<br />

only related to ‘tree’.<br />

It is obvious that one of the main problems of this approach is the availability<br />

of corresponding ontologies. In fact, onomasiological dictionaries which<br />

have been created together with knowledge schemata in the last decades could<br />

be of high interest ( 3 ). Unfortunately the cooperation between the classical<br />

linguistic lexicography and modern computer-assisted and oriented research is<br />

not always very intensive.<br />

the research for linguistic patterns is also supported by the use of thesauri.<br />

the distinction between main terms and synonyms or near-synonyms<br />

( 3 ) See, for example, the onomasiological dictionary project of the Romance languages by<br />

henri Vernay (1991).<br />

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01_2007_5222_txt_ML.indd 155 6-12-2007 15:14:05

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