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A formal terminology consists of a set of conceptual definitions for the semantical reconstruction of a vocabulary on an intensional level of description. The marking of comparatively abstract concepts as semantic categories and their relational positioning on a meta-level is shown to be instrumental in adapting the conceptual design to domain -specific characteristics. Such a meta-model implies that concepts subsumed by categories may share their compositional possibilities as regards the construction of complex structures. Our approach to language processing leads to an automatic derivation of contextual semantic information about the linguistic expressions under review. This information is encoded by means of values of certain attributes defined in a feature-based grammatical framework. A standard process controlling grammatical analysis, the unification of feature structures, is used for its evalution. One important example for the usefulness of this approach is the disambiguation of lexical meaning.
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Ingenerf, J. (1994). Disambiguating Lexical Meaning: Conceptual meta-modelling as a means of controlling semantic language analysis. In: Bock, HH., Lenski, W., Richter, M.M. (eds) Information Systems and Data Analysis. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46808-7_6
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