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Semiotic-Conceptual Analysis (SCA) is a mathematical formalisation of semiotics which uses Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) as an underlying formal model of conceptual structures. Previously SCA had only been applied to formal languages. This paper discusses the applicability of SCA to natural languages using the example of the lexical field of “cooking” in English and Maori.
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We omitted a few of the attributes, for example, the length of cooking time, whether a vigorous action is required and whether it applies to liquids or solids. We omitted some compound cooking verbs and we renamed some of the attributes.
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Abel Tasman’s contact with them in 1642 was brief and hostile and did not likely have much, if any, impact on Maori culture.
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Leach speculates that the need for pottery making may be connected to growing grains neither of which Polynesian people did.
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Williams (1957) and https://maoridictionary.co.nz.
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A kind of sweet potato.
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Priss, U., Old, L.J. (2019). Semiotic-Conceptual Analysis of a Lexical Field. In: Endres, D., Alam, M., Şotropa, D. (eds) Graph-Based Representation and Reasoning. ICCS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11530. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23182-8_18
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