Multilingualism and Conceptual Modelling
RicardoMairal FacultaddeFilologa
Dpto. deFilologasModernasysusLing¨u´ısticas PaseodelaSendadelRey,7
UNED Madrid28040
rmairal@flog.uned.es
One of the leading motivations behind the multilingual semantic web is to makeresourcesaccessibledigitallyinanonlineglobalmultilingualcontext. Con- sequently,itisfundamentalforknowledgebasestofindawaytomanagemultilin- gualism and thus be equipped with those procedures for its conceptual modelling.
Inthiscontext,thegoalofthispaperistodiscusshowcommon-senseknowledge andculturalknowledgearemodelledinamultilingualframework. Moreparticu- larly,multilingualismandconceptualmodellingaredealtwithfromtheperspective ofFunGramKB,alexico-conceptualknowledge basefornaturallanguageunder- standing. This project argues for a cleardivision betweenthe linguisticand the conceptualdimensionsofknowledge. Whiletheconceptuallayerisorganizedinto threemodules,whichresultfromastrongcommitmenttowardscapturingsemantic knowledge(Ontology),proceduralknowledge(Cognicon)andepisodicknowledge (Onomasticon),thelinguisticlevelincludesalexiconandagrammaticon (asyn- tacticrepository ofconstructionalschemata). Culturalmismatches arediscussed andformallyrepresented atboth theconceptualandthe linguisticlevelsofFun- GramKB.
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