Legg, CatherineSarjant, Samuel2012-07-182012-07-182012Legg, C. & Sarjant, S. (2012). Bill Gates is not a parking meter: Philosophical quality control in automated ontology building. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Computational Philosophy, AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 (Birmingham, England, July 2-6).https://hdl.handle.net/10289/6533The somewhat old-fashioned concept of philosophical categories is revived and put to work in automated ontology building. We describe a project harvesting knowledge from Wikipedia’s category network in which the principled ontological structure of Cyc was leveraged to furnish an extra layer of accuracy-checking over and above more usual corrections which draw on automated measures of semantic relatedness.application/pdfapplication/vnd.ms-powerpointenontologycategoriessemantic relatednessCYCWikipediaConference Contribution