Ontology and the Lexicon: A Natural Language Processing Perspective

by Alessandro Oltramari, Aldo Gangemi, Laurent Prevot, et al.

Book Overview

The relation between ontologies and language is currently at the forefront of natural language processing (NLP). Ontologies, as widely used models in semantic technologies, have much in common with the lexicon. A lexicon organizes words as a conventional inventory of concepts, while an ontology formalizes concepts and their logical relations. A shared lexicon is the prerequisite for knowledge-sharing through language, and a shared ontology is the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009342479
• ISBN13: 9781009342476
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 359 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"