Naslov
Standardization of the semantic domain(s) description using ontological and constructivist approach

Autori
Perak, Benedikt

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
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Izvornik
CLARC 2016: Perspektive jezičnoga planiranja i jezične politike / CLARC 2016: Perspectives on Language Planning and Policies / - , 2016, 125-126

Skup
CLARC 2016: Perspectives on Language Planning and Policies

Mjesto i datum
Rijeka, Hrvatska, 03.06.2016. - 06.06.2016

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
semantics, ontology, graph teoriy
(semantics, ontology, graph teory)

Sažetak
This paper addresses the possibility to map out: a) the ontological hierarchy of the lexical categories within specific knowledge domain(s), and b) the semantic properties of linguistic constructions used to construe the meanings of specific domain(s) within some corpora. The main aim of this multidimensional mapping is to articulate the standard procedures for differentiating the semantic properties established by linguistic constructions from the ontological referential meanings established by patterns of mereological, topological and morphological categorization of the things in the world. In other words, we want to formalize the distinctive properties of creative processes that language as an instrument of cognizing adds to the representation of the knowledge. This is important because these dynamic creative processes are the cognitive foundation of the usage based creation of standard idiomatic expressions, cross linguistic variation and semantic meaning shift. In a methodological sense, we are trying to establish a model of figurative language description that could be used as a standard for building language technologies and applications that dynamically, interactively and multidimensionally describe standard linguistic usage and knowledge base of specific semantic domain(s). In the ontological description of the lexical referential meaning we are guided by the hierarchical approach that combines the epistemological framework of embodied epistemology, and ontological description of lexical concepts theoretically founded on the emergence principles, particularly John Searle’s distinct epistemic and ontological senses of objective/subjective domains (Searle 2008). This approach leads to the distinction of three emergent superdomains named “matter”, “psychological” and “sociological”. The concepts withKnjiga sažetaka CLARC 2016: Perspektive jezičnoga planiranja i jezične politike 126 in these superdomains are hierarchically organized on the principles of prototypical categorization with mappings of mereological, topological and morphological properties that are partly described in the WordNet database relations. The semantic properties of linguistic constructions are formalized from the qualitative and quantitative description of the grammatical relations: N+V, V+N, Adj+N, extracted from the queries performed on the large corpuses, such as of Croatian (hrWac) and English (enTenTen). This layer mapps semantic relations that can be seen as a distinctively linguistic construal of the knowledge. Some of these constructions clearly follow the ontological referential patterns of domain conceptualization (ex. eng. to feelV loveN hr. ‘osjećatiV ljubavN’). However, some of these constructions violate semantic rules established by the referential relations within the ontological domain of constituent lexemes (ex. eng. to giveV loveN hr. ‘datiV ljubavN’ ; to makeV loveN hr. ‘voditiV ljubavN’) and establish new types of conceptualization processes that enrich the semantical and pragmatical dimensions of the categorical knowledge. It is argued that semantic violations in these constructions function as triggers for metaphoric processing. In this sense, formalizing semantic interconnectivity (Indurkhya 1992) of these conceptualizations is necessary for the understanding of figurative language and creation of (cross)cultural metaphor repositories (ihjj.hr/metafore/ metanet-hr, https://metanet.icsi.berkeley.edu/metanet). In this article we will demonstrate the results of these mixed qualitative and quantitative methods of describing knowledge and standard linguistic usage obtained by tools for data mining (Sketchengine), questionnaires (GRID, Fontaine et al. 2013), ontological formalization of domains (Protege) and visualization of semantic description (D3) on the example of 10 emotions: disgust, anger, fear, surprise, joy, pride, love, guilt, shame sadness in English (enTenTen corpus) and Croatian (hrWac corpus, GRID questionnaire).

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti

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