Klein Gunnar O, Smith Barry
Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet
Trans Jpn Soc Artif Intell. 2010 Jan 1;25(3):433-441. doi: 10.1527/tjsai.25.433.
This essay concerns the problems surrounding the use of the term "concept" in current ontology and terminology research. It is based on the constructive dialogue between realist ontology on the one hand and the world of formal standardization of health informatics on the other, but its conclusions are not restricted to the domain of medicine. The term "concept" is one of the most misused even in literature and technical standards which attempt to bring clarity. In this paper we propose to use the term "concept" in the context of producing defined professional terminologies with one specific and consistent meaning which we propose for adoption as the agreed meaning of the term in future terminological research, and specifically in the development of formal terminologies to be used in computer systems. We also discuss and propose new definitions of a set of cognate terms. We describe the relations governing the realm of concepts, and compare these to the richer and more complex set of relations obtaining between entities in the real world. On this basis we also summarize an associated terminology for ontologies as representations of the real world and a partial mapping between the world of concepts and the world of reality.
本文探讨了当前本体论和术语学研究中围绕“概念”一词使用的问题。它基于现实主义本体论与健康信息学形式标准化世界之间的建设性对话，但得出的结论并不局限于医学领域。即使在试图带来清晰度的文献和技术标准中，“概念”一词也是最常被误用的词汇之一。在本文中，我们建议在生成具有一个特定且一致含义的定义专业术语的背景下使用“概念”一词，我们提议将该含义作为未来术语学研究中该术语的商定含义予以采用，特别是在用于计算机系统的形式术语的开发中。我们还讨论并提出了一组相关术语的新定义。我们描述了支配概念领域的关系，并将这些关系与现实世界中实体之间更丰富、更复杂的关系集进行比较。在此基础上，我们还总结了一套与本体论相关的术语，作为现实世界的表示以及概念世界与现实世界之间的部分映射。
