1. A plea for complex categories in ontologies
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Arapinis, Alexandra, Vieu, Laure, Italian National Research Council (CNR), MEthodes et ingénierie des Langues, des Ontologies et du DIscours (IRIT-MELODI), Institut de recherche en informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (UT1), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (UT1), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS (FRANCE), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR (ITALY), Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - Toulouse INP (FRANCE), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier - UT3 (FRANCE), Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès - UT2J (FRANCE), Université Toulouse 1 Capitole - UT1 (FRANCE), Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse - IRIT (Toulouse, France), and Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - INPT (FRANCE)
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Linguistics and Language ,Lexical semantics ,General Computer Science ,Computer science ,Interface (Java) ,[INFO.INFO-CL]Computer Science [cs]/Computation and Language [cs.CL] ,Language and Linguistics ,[INFO.INFO-AI]Computer Science [cs]/Artificial Intelligence [cs.AI] ,Plea ,[INFO.INFO-LG]Computer Science [cs]/Machine Learning [cs.LG] ,Dot types ,Phenomenon ,Noun ,ontologies ,ontology ,Polysemy ,Inherent polysemy ,Logique en informatique ,[INFO.INFO-LO]Computer Science [cs]/Logic in Computer Science [cs.LO] ,Informatique et langage ,Intelligence artificielle ,Apprentissage ,Linguistics ,Epistemology ,Formal ontology ,Ontology ,Complex categories ,Mereology - Abstract
International audience; This paper investigates an issue at the interface between language and ontology. It is argued that the phenomenon of 'inherent polysemy' observed in lexical semantics for nouns such as book or country actually is a deeper phenomenon grounded on specific ontological relations involving the entities referred to. It is shown that this phenomenon emerges not only in language but also in most available ontologies. Beyond the 'dot types' used in some linguistic theories to account for logical polysemy, it is proposed to introduce 'complex categories' in ontologies in order to solve incoherence and inconsistency issues appearing when this phenomenon is not acknowledged and to characterize complex categories on the basis of formal ontology relations.
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- 2015
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