Commonsense Ontology and Semantics of Natural Language
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چکیده
This paper is concerned with the problem of what ontological knowledge underlies the semantic structures of natural language. It discusses some proposals made by workers in philosophy, linguistics, cognitive science and artificial intelligence in the last few years. Section 1 sketches the basic view in regard to the relationship between ontology and semantics. Section 2 points out the importance to analyse the commonsense view of the world. Section 3 outlines semantic investigations which take into consideration the variety of ontological categories reflected by natural language expressions. Section 4 establishes the necessity of a cognitive approach to ontology and semantics. Finally, Section 5 specifies a few consequences concerning the semantic analysis of nominal expressions.
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