Ontology is neither a dictionary nor a thesaurus. It is a map of interconnected concepts and word senses that reflect relationships such as those that exist between the concepts of “bill” and “kill.”
Un système ontologique n’est ni un dictionnaire, ni un lexique de synonymes, mais une modélisation des relations qu’entretiennent concepts et sens des mots, comparables à celles qui existent entre les concepts “bill” et “kill.”