Context and Terminology in the Multilingual Semantic Web

León-Araúz, Pilar; Faber, Pamela

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“…Concepts do not exist in isolation, but rather as part of a conceptual network, which facilitates concept understanding ( Van Putten et al, 2020 ) and determines the dynamics of concepts and terms ( León Araúz and Faber, 2014 ). Terms and concepts can vary in different disciplines, cultures, and communicative situations, among other contextual factors.…”

Section: Context and Culturementioning

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“…Furthermore, culture, although one of the main pragmatic aspects that can globally affect communication, has also been largely overseen in Terminology, as shown by the relatively low number of cultural studies in the field. A few exceptions can be found in Frame-Based Terminology (FBT; Faber and León Araúz, 2014 ; León Araúz and Faber, 2014 ), which foregrounds the role of context in knowledge acquisition, as well as in Culture-Bound Terminology ( Diki-Kidiri, 2008 ), which emphasizes the fact that specialized communication can differ between speakers of different languages and cultures.…”

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Cultural Context and Multimodal Knowledge Representation: Seeing the Forest for the Trees

Cabezas-García

Reimerink

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Context, especially cultural context, has long been neglected in Terminology. Even though recent approaches have acknowledged the relevance of culture in specialized communication, the development of culture in Terminology is still marginal. Culture is also underrepresented in terminological resources, which may respond to the complexity of reflecting the cultural component in the description of terms and concepts. However, conceptualization is dynamic and changes from culture to culture and, for that reason, an in-depth study on how the nature of human perception and cultural cognition influences the representation of concept systems and terms in specialized knowledge contexts is needed. Furthermore, to facilitate knowledge acquisition, contextual and conceptual information should go together with multimodal information, as the combination of textual and visual material improves understanding. This study integrates different types of context (i.e., semantic relations, frames, and culture) to describe a methodology for the selection and representation of multimodal information for culturally bound concepts such as forest in terminological knowledge bases, based on the theoretical premises of Frame-Based Terminology. Different ideas of forest in European countries were analyzed and represented by means of culturally adapted images, which are best suited to disseminate knowledge and foreground the role of culture in specialized communication.

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Section: Context and Culturementioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Cultural Context and Multimodal Knowledge Representation: Seeing the Forest for the Trees

Cabezas-García

Reimerink

2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…However, terms and concepts are dynamic and context-sensitive. For instance, concepts may be recategorized so as to constrain their relational behavior, and terms may show several types of variants with different cognitive, semantic, and usage consequences ( León-Araúz and Faber, 2014 ), (see examples in Sections “Local Pragmatic Contexts” and “Global Pragmatic Contexts”).…”

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“…Such resources would ideally allow non-experts to understand a given domain by focusing on and capturing essential knowledge. However, they would also benefit diverse applications in NLP and in the Multilingual Semantic Web (MSW; León-Araúz and Faber, 2014 ). The MSW is envisioned as an information space where language-independent knowledge would be accessible across different natural languages.…”

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Specialized Knowledge Representation and the Parameterization of Context

Faber

León-Araúz

2016

Front. Psychol.

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Though instrumental in numerous disciplines, context has no universally accepted definition. In specialized knowledge resources it is timely and necessary to parameterize context with a view to more effectively facilitating knowledge representation, understanding, and acquisition, the main aims of terminological knowledge bases. This entails distinguishing different types of context as well as how they interact with each other. This is not a simple objective to achieve despite the fact that specialized discourse does not have as many contextual variables as those in general language (i.e., figurative meaning, irony, etc.). Even in specialized text, context is an extremely complex concept. In fact, contextual information can be specified in terms of scope or according to the type of information conveyed. It can be a textual excerpt or a whole document; a pragmatic convention or a whole culture; a concrete situation or a prototypical scenario. Although these versions of context are useful for the users of terminological resources, such resources rarely support context modeling. In this paper, we propose a taxonomy of context primarily based on scope (local and global) and further divided into syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic facets. These facets cover the specification of different types of terminological information, such as predicate-argument structure, collocations, semantic relations, term variants, grammatical and lexical cohesion, communicative situations, subject fields, and cultures.

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Lexicalizing a Multilingual Ontology for Searching in the Assistive Technology Domain

Thurmair

2014

Towards the Multilingual Semantic Web

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Context and Terminology in the Multilingual Semantic Web

Cited by 37 publications

References 13 publications

Cultural Context and Multimodal Knowledge Representation: Seeing the Forest for the Trees

Cultural Context and Multimodal Knowledge Representation: Seeing the Forest for the Trees

Specialized Knowledge Representation and the Parameterization of Context

Lexicalizing a Multilingual Ontology for Searching in the Assistive Technology Domain

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