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That said, in relation to the upper-level ontologies, we always contented
ourselves with the role of a critical user of the conceptual categories defined in these
ontologies, without either wishing to or being able to take part in the highly abstract
and formal debates between specialists in the matter. The important thing for us was
- and still is - that using the categories defined in the upper-level ontologies enable
us to impose a certain structure on the terms or groups of conceptual terms
previously identified and grouped on the basis of semantic criteria, and to ensure
that the
meta-lexicon in its entirety remains interoperable
with the terminologies
and other ontologies which adopt the categories defined by today's main upper-level
ontologies.
