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Concept Formation in Linguistic Ontologies

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Conceptual Structures: Leveraging Semantic Technologies (ICCS 2009)

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Problems of conceptualization in linguistic ontologies are discussed We show that it is necessary to form concepts of a linguistic ontology as close as possible to the meanings of linguistic units, because excessive generalization and clustering of meanings necessarily lead to distortions in the system of relations, excessive problems in a specific subject field, or an application. At the same time it is important to ensure that concepts can be distinguished from superconcepts and sibling concepts. The usage of really existing multiword expressions helps us mitigate these contradictory requirements. The introduction of concepts on the basis of multiword expressions does not change the essence of a linguistic ontology, but also makes the distinction between the concepts much clearer.

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Loukachevitch, N. (2009). Concept Formation in Linguistic Ontologies. In: Rudolph, S., Dau, F., Kuznetsov, S.O. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Leveraging Semantic Technologies. ICCS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5662. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03079-6_2

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