Applying the lexical constructional model to ontology building
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Elena Montiel-Ponsoda
Abstract
Knowledge acquisition strategies based on lexico-syntactic patterns have shown to significantly contribute to the automatic identification of concepts and relations from texts, but have not investigated how to represent that information in ontologies. Since this is one of the most critical steps in ontology building, we propose to establish a correspondence between lexico-syntactic patterns, specifically verbal patterns representing taxonomic and meronymic relations, and their corresponding ontological structures represented by Ontology Design Patterns. In this way, the transformation of linguistic expressions into ontological structures could be automated and it would support domain experts in the development of ontologies. In order to reliably establish this correspondence, we need to dissect the meaning of predicates. For this aim, we rely on the Lexical Constructional Model, as a comprehensive theory of meaning construction. In this contribution we demonstrate how such a model permits to identify the ontological structure(s) that better capture the meaning of predicates in an ontological resource.
Abstract
Knowledge acquisition strategies based on lexico-syntactic patterns have shown to significantly contribute to the automatic identification of concepts and relations from texts, but have not investigated how to represent that information in ontologies. Since this is one of the most critical steps in ontology building, we propose to establish a correspondence between lexico-syntactic patterns, specifically verbal patterns representing taxonomic and meronymic relations, and their corresponding ontological structures represented by Ontology Design Patterns. In this way, the transformation of linguistic expressions into ontological structures could be automated and it would support domain experts in the development of ontologies. In order to reliably establish this correspondence, we need to dissect the meaning of predicates. For this aim, we rely on the Lexical Constructional Model, as a comprehensive theory of meaning construction. In this contribution we demonstrate how such a model permits to identify the ontological structure(s) that better capture the meaning of predicates in an ontological resource.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
- From the extraction of continuous features in parallel texts to visual analytics of heterogeneous areal-typological datasets 13
- Lexical-syntactic analysis model of Spanish multi-word expressions 39
- Three-place predicates in RRG 79
- A Role and Reference Grammar parser for German 105
- Extending a lexicalist functional grammar through speech acts, constructions and conversational software agents 143
- The implementation of the CLS constructor in ARTEMIS 165
- FrameNet and FunGramKB 197
- Exploring the thematic-frame mapping in FunGramKB 233
- FunGramKB term extractor 251
- Deep semantic representation in a domain-specific ontology 271
- A functional and constructional approach for specialized knowledge resources 297
- Applying the lexical constructional model to ontology building 313
- The interaction of non-linguistic and linguistic knowledge in FunGramKB 339
- Low-level situational cognitive models within the Lexical Constructional Model and their computational implementation in FunGramKB 367
- Index 391
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
- From the extraction of continuous features in parallel texts to visual analytics of heterogeneous areal-typological datasets 13
- Lexical-syntactic analysis model of Spanish multi-word expressions 39
- Three-place predicates in RRG 79
- A Role and Reference Grammar parser for German 105
- Extending a lexicalist functional grammar through speech acts, constructions and conversational software agents 143
- The implementation of the CLS constructor in ARTEMIS 165
- FrameNet and FunGramKB 197
- Exploring the thematic-frame mapping in FunGramKB 233
- FunGramKB term extractor 251
- Deep semantic representation in a domain-specific ontology 271
- A functional and constructional approach for specialized knowledge resources 297
- Applying the lexical constructional model to ontology building 313
- The interaction of non-linguistic and linguistic knowledge in FunGramKB 339
- Low-level situational cognitive models within the Lexical Constructional Model and their computational implementation in FunGramKB 367
- Index 391
