Ontologies and ontological methods in linguistics

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Schalley, Andrea
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Language and Linguistics Compass published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd In the last decade, linguists have started to develop and make use of ontologies, encouraged by the progress made in areas such as Artificial Intelligence and the Semantic Web. This paper gives an overview of notions and dimensions of “ontology” and of ontologies for and in linguistics. It discusses building blocks, design aspects, and capabilities of formal ontologies and provides some implementation pointers. The focus of this paper, however, is on linguistic research and what a modelling framework based on ontologies has to offer. Accordingly, the paper does not aim at providing an overview of specific models for computational processing. To illustrate the issues at hand, an example scenario from linguistic typology is selected instead, where the aim of describing the world's languages is approached through ontologies.

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Language and Linguistics Compass

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© 2019 The Author. Language and Linguistics Compass published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Cognitive and computational psychology

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Schalley, A, Ontologies and ontological methods in linguistics, Language and Linguistics Compass, 2019, pp. 1-19

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