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4. On the Role of Senses in the Ontology-Lexicon

Authors : Philipp Cimiano, John McCrae, Paul Buitelaar, Elena Montiel-Ponsoda

Published in: New Trends of Research in Ontologies and Lexical Resources

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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This chapter investigates the notion of ‘sense’ in the ontology-lexicon interface.As a realization of the ontology-lexicon interface, we are concerned with so called ‘ontology lexica’ which specify the meaning of lexical entries by reference to a given ontology.We propose that in the context of the ontology-lexicon interface a ‘sense’ can be understood as a three-faceted entity, i.e.as a (i) reification of the link between a lexical entry and the ontological reference, (ii) as subset of all the uses of the word that can be interpreted as referring to the same ontological reference, and (iii) as an implicitly defined subconcept.We also provide a new definition of the traditional notions of homonymy, synonymy, metonymy etc.in the ontology-lexicon interface.

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Title: On the Role of Senses in the Ontology-Lexicon
Authors: Philipp Cimiano
John McCrae
Paul Buitelaar
Elena Montiel-Ponsoda
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book: New Trends of Research in Ontologies and Lexical Resources
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-31781-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-31782-8

Copyright Year: 2013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31782-8_4

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