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Bateman, J. A. ( 1992) , The theoretical status of ontologies in natural language processing, in S. Preuß and B. Schmitz, eds, 'Text Representation and Domain Modelling -- ideas from linguistics and AI', KIT-Report 97, Technische Universitaet Berlin, pp. 50 -- 99. (Papers from KIT-FAST Workshop, Technical University Berlin, October 9th - 11th 1991). Also available from the Computation and Language E-print archive: cmp-lg/9704010. URL = http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/publish/komet/papers/tu-paper.ps

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