INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES - BAS

Cybernetics and Information Technologies
Volume 5, No 2. Sofia, 2005, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences


Exercise in Conceptualization

Kamenka Staykova

Institute of Information Technologies, 1113 Sofia
E-mail: staykova@iinf.bas.bg


Abstract: This article aims at knowledge representation through conceptualization of natural language verbs. It describes a particular attempt to conceptualize the most frequent Bulgarian verbs against the conceptual model called The Globe and constructed on the base of the computationally implemented ontology GUM.

Keywords: knowledge representation, ontologies, natural language processing, syntetic functional grammar.