Η συμβολή της σημειωτικής στη σύλληψη οντολογίας από κείμενα

Abstract

The advent of the digital age has brought significant changes to the daily lives of humanity. Many human activities were redefined in the context of a new, virtual space, the world of the Internet. This networked space, with its innumerable data and abundance of information, is faced with a serious issue, the "information chaos". In short, this issue is closely associated with the correct retrieval of information achieved mechanically. Understanding and describing the real world plays an important role, among many others, in addressing this issue. On the World Wide Web, this process is carried out using digital semantic technologies, such as, for example, ontologies that have undertaken the conceptual description of the world and its representation. Besides, a very great part of knowledge and information is found in texts which become the input corpus for the capture of ontologies. In this context, this paper aims to explore the links that bring together the fields of ontological engineering and (textual) semiotics. The challenge emerging is the adoption of the fundamental principles of structural and interpretative semantics in conceptualizing ontology from texts. The general basic question that this paper answer is whether semiotics can support ontology capture from texts.

Keywords

• ontology capture, semantic technology, text, textual semantics