The Language Of Ontology

Author : J. T. M. Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192648535
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of Ontology written by J. T. M. Miller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphysical and ontological debates, concerning what exists and the nature of reality, are perennial features of the philosophical landscape. However, some have argued that ontological debates are non-substantive, pointless, trivial, incoherent, or impossible. Debates about whether tables exist, for example, or about the nature of reality, are taken to be in some way deficient. This has led to a burgeoning literature studying the nature of metaphysical and ontological disputes themselves. One major debate within this context concerns the language of ontology. The central question is whether the nature of language influences or limits our ability to engage productively in ontological disputes. While we typically think that our language describes the world, or at least can accurately describe the world, there have been many who have argued that the nature of language inherently influences and limits our attempts to understand the nature of reality-that our claims about what exists are, in fact, merely a reflection of how we happen to speak or think. The Language of Ontology collects chapters from established participants in the debate alongside new voices, to explore the range of issues relating to our ability or inability to get beyond the limits of our language.

Author : Christopher J. Hall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108482538
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ontologies of English written by Christopher J. Hall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical examination of the ways in which English is conceptualised for learning, teaching, and assessment in a range of domains, from both social and cognitive perspectives. Researchers and postgraduates working on English in L1 and L2 educational contexts will find it valuable for research and collaboration.

Author : Kanti Lal Das
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
ISBN 13 : 9788172112288
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and Ontology written by Kanti Lal Das and published by Northern Book Centre. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book highlights the concept of ontology, relationship between language and ontology, the distinction between ontology and reality, the role of linguistic philosophers in dealing with ontology etc. Apart from these, the eminent scholars address themselves with the ontology behind the value of valuation, exclusion and discrimination, inter-religious dialogue, Indian theories of language, values in cinema, poetic language etc.

Author : Lee W. Lacy
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1412034485
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Owl written by Lee W. Lacy and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to make your content accessible on the Semantic Web by marking it up using the Web Ontology Language - OWL. OWL is the new way to represent information on the Web. This book provides context about the Semantic Web and describes each of OWL's language constructs.

Author : Philipp Cimiano
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031021541
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ontology-Based Interpretation of Natural Language written by Philipp Cimiano and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For humans, understanding a natural language sentence or discourse is so effortless that we hardly ever think about it. For machines, however, the task of interpreting natural language, especially grasping meaning beyond the literal content, has proven extremely difficult and requires a large amount of background knowledge. This book focuses on the interpretation of natural language with respect to specific domain knowledge captured in ontologies. The main contribution is an approach that puts ontologies at the center of the interpretation process. This means that ontologies not only provide a formalization of domain knowledge necessary for interpretation but also support and guide the construction of meaning representations. We start with an introduction to ontologies and demonstrate how linguistic information can be attached to them by means of the ontology lexicon model lemon. These lexica then serve as basis for the automatic generation of grammars, which we use to compositionally construct meaning representations that conform with the vocabulary of an underlying ontology. As a result, the level of representational granularity is not driven by language but by the semantic distinctions made in the underlying ontology and thus by distinctions that are relevant in the context of a particular domain. We highlight some of the challenges involved in the construction of ontology-based meaning representations, and show how ontologies can be exploited for ambiguity resolution and the interpretation of temporal expressions. Finally, we present a question answering system that combines all tools and techniques introduced throughout the book in a real-world application, and sketch how the presented approach can scale to larger, multi-domain scenarios in the context of the Semantic Web. Table of Contents: List of Figures / Preface / Acknowledgments / Introduction / Ontologies / Linguistic Formalisms / Ontology Lexica / Grammar Generation / Putting Everything Together / Ontological Reasoning for Ambiguity Resolution / Temporal Interpretation / Ontology-Based Interpretation for Question Answering / Conclusion / Bibliography / Authors' Biographies

Author : Sergei Nirenburg
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262140867
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ontological Semantics written by Sergei Nirenburg and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive theory-based approach to the treatment of text meaning in natural language processing applications.

Author : Chu-ren Huang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521886597
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ontology and the Lexicon written by Chu-ren Huang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edited collection focusing on the technology involved in enabling integration between lexical resources and semantic technologies.

Author : Guido Küng
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401035148
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ontology and the Logistic Analysis of Language written by Guido Küng and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the aim of the present study to introduce the reader to the ways of thinking of those contemporary philosophers who apply the tools of symbolic logic to classical philosophical problems. Unlike the "conti nental" reader for whom this work was originally written, the English speaking reader will be more familiar with most of the philosophers dis cussed in this book, and he will in general not be tempted to dismiss them indiscriminately as "positivists" and "nominalists". But the English version of this study may help to redress the balance in another respect. In view of the present emphasis on ordinary language and the wide spread tendency to leave the mathematical logicians alone with their technicalities, it seems not without merit to revive the interest in formal ontology and the construction of formal systems. A closer look at the historical account which will be given here, may convince the reader that there are several points in the historical develop ment whose consequences have not yet been fully assessed: I mention, e. g. , the shift from the traditional three-level semantics of sense and deno tation to the contemporary two-level semantics of representation; the relation of extensional structure and intensional content in the extensional systems of Wittgenstein and Carnap; the confusing changes in labelling the different kinds of analytic and apriori true sentences; etc. Among the philosophically interesting tools of symbolic logic Lesniewski's calculus of names deserves special attention.

Author : Helmut Wautischer
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262232596
Total Pages : 669 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ontology of Consciousness written by Helmut Wautischer and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008-04-11 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars from many different disciplines examine consciousness through the lens of intellectual approaches and cultures ranging from cosmology research and cell biophysics laboratories to pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and Tibetan Tantric Buddhism in a volume that extends consciousness studies beyond the limits of current neuroscience research. The "hard problem" of today's consciousness studies is subjective experience: understanding why some brain processing is accompanied by an experienced inner life. Recent scientific advances offer insights for understanding the physiological and chemical phenomenology of consciousness. But by leaving aside the internal experiential nature of consciousness in favor of mapping neural activity, such science leaves many questions unanswered. In Ontology of Consciousness, scholars from a range of disciplines—from neurophysiology to parapsychology, from mathematics to anthropology and indigenous non-Western modes of thought—go beyond these limits of current neuroscience research to explore insights offered by other intellectual approaches to consciousness. These scholars focus their attention on such philosophical approaches to consciousness as Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, North American Indian insights, pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilization, and the Byzantine Empire. Some draw on artifacts and ethnographic data to make their point. Others translate cultural concepts of consciousness into modern scientific language using models and mathematical mappings. Many consider individual experiences of sentience and existence, as seen in African communalism, Hindi psychology, Zen Buddhism, Indian vibhuti phenomena, existentialism, philosophical realism, and modern psychiatry. Some reveal current views and conundrums in neurobiology to comprehend sentient intellection. Contributors Karim Akerma, Matthijs Cornelissen, Antoine Courban, Mario Crocco, Christian de Quincey, Thomas B. Fowler, Erlendur Haraldsson, David. J. Hufford, Pavel B. Ivanov, Heinz Kimmerle, Stanley Krippner, Armand J. Labbé, James Maffie, Hubert Markl, Graham Parkes, Michael Polemis, E Richard Sorenson, Mircea Steriade, Thomas Szasz, Mariela Szirko, Robert A.F. Thurman, Edith L.B. Turner, Julia Watkin, Helmut Wautischer

Author : J. T. M. Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191916151
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of Ontology written by J. T. M. Miller and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Langage of Ontology' addresses the question of is whether the nature of language influences or limits debates about what exists. Chapters from both established and new voices explore the range of issues relating to our ability or inability to get beyond the limits of our language.