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CG Representations of Non-literal Expressions

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Natural language communication largely depends on other means than literal expressions. This issue goes far beyond aesthetics, and touches the very heart of natural language. In the last decades, research in these fields has added much to our understanding of concerns that have puzzled researchers since Aristotle, but these insights are rarely reflected in the literature on knowledge representation. This paper discusses how non-literal expressions can be represented in Conceptual Graphs (CG) in such a way that highly complex phenomena of natural language such as metaphors are rendered clearly for computational purposes. Aspects of language understanding from metaphor theory and translation theory are used to establish a foundation for such CG representations. A number of examples are analyzed and presented in Prolog+CG.

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  1. Department of Communication, Aalborg University, Kroghstraede 3, 9220, Aalborg East, Denmark

    Henrik Schärfe

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  1. School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, 1320 E 10th Street, Bloomington, IN, 47405-3907, USA

    Uta Priss

  2. School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia, 5095

    Dan Corbett

  3. Central Laboratory for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 25A Acad. G. Bonchev Street, 1113, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Galia Angelova

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Schärfe, H. (2002). CG Representations of Non-literal Expressions. In: Priss, U., Corbett, D., Angelova, G. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Integration and Interfaces. ICCS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2393. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45483-7_13

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