Low-level situational cognitive models within the Lexical Constructional Model and their computational implementation in FunGramKB
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Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
Abstract
This paper investigates the notion of low-level situational cognitive model, its role in linguistic description and its possible computational treatment in the knowledge base FunGramKB. Low-level situational models are exploited metonymically to produce situation-based implicatures. When such inferences become stably associated with a formal pattern, they give rise to implicational constructions. Other kinds of construction make use of different kinds of cognitive model. For example, argument-structure constructions are based on high-level non-situational cognitive models. The paper then provides a typology of low-level situational cognitive models, which can be roughly equated with Schank and Abelson’s now classical notion of script. Schank and Abelson’s classification into situational, personal and instrumental scripts is revised and refined to make it include a further division into simple, complex and composite scripts. Simple scripts capture sequences of actions, while complex scripts consist of chained sequences of subscripts and composite scripts are combinations of independent subscripts. Since scripts are cases of procedural knowledge, which is included in the so-called cognicon of FunGramKB, the paper explores the incorporation of this typology into the architecture of this part of the knowledge base. This incorporation is argued to endow the cognicon with greater descriptive parsimony, which results in a more efficient computational implementation. Finally, the paper uses the FunGramKB representation metalanguage COREL as an adequate way of supplying precise descriptions in terms of event structure variables and their sequencing, which turns out to be useful to enhance descriptive adequacy in the linguistic model itself.
Abstract
This paper investigates the notion of low-level situational cognitive model, its role in linguistic description and its possible computational treatment in the knowledge base FunGramKB. Low-level situational models are exploited metonymically to produce situation-based implicatures. When such inferences become stably associated with a formal pattern, they give rise to implicational constructions. Other kinds of construction make use of different kinds of cognitive model. For example, argument-structure constructions are based on high-level non-situational cognitive models. The paper then provides a typology of low-level situational cognitive models, which can be roughly equated with Schank and Abelson’s now classical notion of script. Schank and Abelson’s classification into situational, personal and instrumental scripts is revised and refined to make it include a further division into simple, complex and composite scripts. Simple scripts capture sequences of actions, while complex scripts consist of chained sequences of subscripts and composite scripts are combinations of independent subscripts. Since scripts are cases of procedural knowledge, which is included in the so-called cognicon of FunGramKB, the paper explores the incorporation of this typology into the architecture of this part of the knowledge base. This incorporation is argued to endow the cognicon with greater descriptive parsimony, which results in a more efficient computational implementation. Finally, the paper uses the FunGramKB representation metalanguage COREL as an adequate way of supplying precise descriptions in terms of event structure variables and their sequencing, which turns out to be useful to enhance descriptive adequacy in the linguistic model itself.
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
