第327回研究講演会開催報告


日時:平成18年11月24日(金)13:30〜16:00
会場:山形大学工学部7号館203教室

講演1
演題:Concept Reconstruction for Ontology-based Semantics
講師:Andre Wlodarczyk (Prof. of Charles de Gaulle University(Lille 3) and Universite Paris Sorbonne (Paris 4)) Currently : Visiting Researcher at the Nation Institute for Japanese Language (Tokyo)

概要: If we want to reach better results in the field of semantic analysis of linguistic phenomena certain foundational concepts (notions) currently in use must be formally reconstructed. From the linguistic (more generally semiological) point of view, semantic categories (contents) must not be considered in separation from signs (units defined originally as pairs of Form and Content). However, the present approach is based on the assumption that meaning of human-made signs as such being inaccessible for inspection, the only reasonable solution for semantic research is modelling. Consequently, in the described model, (1) the sign is defined as a structure having a set of types of usages named semions (defined as pairs of Signifier and Signified) as its domain and a set of monadic infons (descriptions defined as pairs of notations and a conjunction of true formulae), (2) the structure of signs is characteristic of semiological Systems, using signs is an instantiation of semiological Processes known altogether as communication, (3) the projection from Semions of a given Sign to Infons within the System is known as assignment of descriptions (attributes) to the types of usages of signs, whereas the projection from Signs to Infons within the Process is said to be signification, Ontologies are motivations (hierarchically structured foundations) of semantic properties of signs. Semantics of natural languages is most of all application domain specific. However, I claim that it is possible to build meta-ontological (universal) hierarchies of concepts motivating particular semantic solutions. It will be shown how to build ontologies in order to describe linguistic meanings using KDD algorithms integrated in "Semana" platform.

講演報告:
 講演者らが現在進めている意味表現プロジェクトの内容について、その思想、オントロジーなどの背景と、実際のインプリメントを解説した。意味をどう表現するかについて活発な質疑があった。

講演2
演題:Computer-aided Acquisition of Semantic Knowledge --the Category of Aspect
講師:Helene Wlodarczyk(Prof. of Universite Paris Sorbonne (Paris 4)): Currently : Visiting Researcher at Waseda University (Tokyo)

概要: We adopted the notation of semantic feature structures (simple trees only) as a meta-language for describing Aspect in various languages regardless of linguistic levels (morphological, syntactical, lexical etc). We propose to describe the meaning of the Aspect category as a pair of feature bundles : Analysis and Control. The Analysis of a situation (viewed as a whole or as one of its moments or stages) is considered as its endocentric aspect, and the Control of a situation (viewed as a set of operations such as iteration, flow and intensity modifications, composition) is defined as its exocentric aspect because it is imposed from outside. These aspectual features occur and combine diversely depending on the semantic type of the situation to which a verb is related (due to hyperonymy/hyponymy lattice). With the possibility to use the techniques of knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) provided that the latter contain meta-linguistic information, we present our theory of the Category of Aspect as the first attempt of applying computational approximation-based methods in order to determine the relevance and relative importance of the parameters found. Only such detailed work with databases may be supposed to allow us to offer formal, verified (i.e. experimentally tested) and comparable cross-language definitions of semantic categories. At the present stage of our research, the list of structures (in which combinations of semantic parameters of Aspect can be observed) describing the different usages of simple utterances is not exhaustive as yet. However, while testing the coherence of our descriptions, we could already improve our theory of Aspect.

講演報告:
 講演1の内容をアスペクトに適用したときの実際についての解説であった。アスペクトをどう表すかについてはさまざまな議論があるが、その内容をめぐって活発な議論が行われた。

参加者:12名
報告者:横山 晶一
山形大学工学部情報科学科
〒992-8510 米沢市城南4−3−15
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