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| Title | Senso Comune |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alessandro Oltramari, Guido Vetere, Maurizio Lenzerini, Aldo Gangemi and Nicola Guarino |
| Abstract | This paper introduces the general features of Senso Comune, an open knowledgebase for the Italian language, focusing on the interplay of lexical andontological knowledge, and outlining our approach to conceptual knowledgeelicitation. Senso Comune consists of a machine-readable lexicon constrained byan ontological infrastructure. The idea at the basis of Senso Comune isthatnatural languages exist in use, and they belong to their users. In the line ofSaussure's linguistics, natural languages are seen as a social product andtheir main strength relies on the users’ consensus. At the same time,language has specific goals: i.e. referring to entities that belong to theusers’ world (be it physical or not) and that are made up in socialenvironments where expressions are produced and understood. This usageleverages the creativity of those who produce words and try to understand them.This is the reason why ontology, i.e. a shared conceptualization of the world,can be regarded to as the soil on which the speakers' consensus may be rooted. Some final remarks concerning future work and applications are also given. |
| Language | Semantics |
| Topics | Ontologies, Lexicon, lexical database, Semantics |
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| Bibtex | @InProceedings{OLTRAMARI10.468, author = {Alessandro Oltramari, Guido Vetere, Maurizio Lenzerini, Aldo Gangemi and Nicola Guarino}, title = {Senso Comune}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |