Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-1-2019
Publication Title
CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Abstract
Conceptual Dependency (CD) primitives and Image Schemas (IS) share a common goal of grounding symbols of natural language in a representation that allows for automated semantic interpretation. Both seek to establish a connection between high-level conceptualizations in natural language and abstract cognitive building blocks. Some previous approaches have established a CD-IS correspondence. In this paper, we build on this correspondence in order to apply a logic designed for image schemas to selected CD primitives with the goal of formally taking account of the CD inventory. The logic draws from Region Connection Calculus (RCC-8), Qualitative Trajectory Calculus (QTC), Cardinal Directions and Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). One of the primary premises of CD is a minimalist approach to its inventory of primitives, that is, it seeks to express natural language contents in an abstract manner with as few primitives as possible. In a formal analysis of physical primitives of CD we found a potential reduction since some primitives can be expressed as special cases of others.
Keywords
Conceptual Dependency, Formal Modeling, Image Schemas
Volume
2518
ISSN
16130073
Rights
Copyright © 2018 for the individual papers by the papers' authors.
Recommended Citation
Macbeth, Jamie C. and Gromann, Dagmar, "Towards Modeling Conceptual Dependency Primitives with Image Schema Logic" (2019). Computer Science: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/csc_facpubs/160
Comments
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