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TY - UNPB ID - cogprints5544 UR - http://cogprints.org/5544/ A1 - Saba, Walid TI - A Note on Ontology and Ordinary Language Y1 - 2007/05// N2 - We argue for a compositional semantics grounded in a strongly typed ontology that reflects our commonsense view of the world and the way we talk about it. Assuming such a structure we show that the semantics of various natural language phenomena may become nearly trivial. AV - public KW - Ontology KW - Commonsense Knowledge KW - Semantics ER -