* To: "Standard-Upper-Ontology (E-mail)" <standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org>
    * Subject: SUO: WordNet Mappings
    * From: Ian Niles <iniles@teknowledge.com>
    * Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:44:06 -0700
    * Reply-To: Ian Niles <iniles@teknowledge.com>
    * Sender: owner-standard-upper-ontology@majordomo.ieee.org

Hi All,

	A while back, I mentioned our project of mapping the SUMO to the
noun synsets in WordNet.  We've now loaded the first 1000 or so mappings
into our ontology browser:  http://ontology.teknowledge.com.  You'll notice
there are now three KBs loaded in the browser:  Merge (just the current
version of the SUMO), WordNet (just the mappings from WordNet to the SUMO),
and Merge-WordNet (both the SUMO and the mappings).

	All of the mappings are represented as instances of the following
formula schemas:

(subsumingExternalConcept <WordNet synset> <SUMO concept> <WordNet version>)
(synonymousExternalConcept <WordNet synset> <SUMO concept> <WordNet
version>)

The first formula means that <SUMO concept> is the most specific superclass
of <WordNet synset>, and the second formula means that <SUMO concept> and
<WordNet synset> have the same meaning.  Note that WordNet synsets are
represented as an English word prepended to the eight digit numeric synset
ID.  For example, dry_cleaning-WN00161520 represents the synset of dry
cleaning in WordNet that has the identifier 00161520.  Note too that the
version of WordNet used in the mappings is 1.6.

	Let me know if you have any questions or comments about these
mappings.

-Ian