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Conceptual modelling of the “meaning” of textual narrative documents

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A considerable amount of “useful” information is buried into natural language “narrative” documents. In these, the information content (the “meaning”) consists mainly in the description of “facts” or “events” relating the real or intended behaviour of some (not necessarily human) “actors”. In this paper, we suggest that at least some directions for establishing a standard methodology to accurately represent this meaning could be found in the solutions adopted in NKRL (acronym of “Narrative Knowledge Representation Language”), a conceptual modelling language which has a long history of successful, concrete applications.

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Zarri, G.P. (1997). Conceptual modelling of the “meaning” of textual narrative documents. In: Raś, Z.W., Skowron, A. (eds) Foundations of Intelligent Systems. ISMIS 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1325. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63614-5_53

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