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.”
为了达到如此级别的由计算机算法来处理的语言的灵巧性，必须建立一种本体论。本体论既不是一本字典，也不是一本词汇分类集。它是一张相互关联的概念和字意之间的地图，它反映了诸如 存在于“bill”和“kill” 之间的概念。