Semantic Configuration Research Articles

Estructura semántica y estructura conceptual en la conformación del sentido pragmático

This paper attempts to analyze the way in which the semantic configuration of a lexical form determines de pragmatic senses developed in discourse. The proposal is exemplified by the analysis of two radically different syntactic forms, the adjective claro and the preposition-connector según. The analysis shows that the pragmatic behavior of these unrelated forms is determined and restricted by the schematic semantic representation of the base form. Following Langacker (1985, 1990) it is proposed that a process of subjectification via semantic bleaching involves an increasing loss of semantic features which involve an equally increasing degree of participation of the conceptualizer in the constitution of different types of pragmatic senses.

<b>Through the prism of metaphor: a case study of the US and UK political discourse on the Ukraine conflict

Much has been said about the role of metaphor in constructing the meaning of political discourse. The seminal work of G. Lakoff showed how a particular choice of metaphors allowed political agents to take a stand on important issues and achieve their rhetorical goals. This paper focuses on the identification of the most productive means for semantic configuration of the metaphors used by British and American media given the ideological perspectivization of North-American politics towards recent conflicts in Ukraine. Drawing on critical discourse analysis and conceptual metaphor theory, this paper argues that the metaphorical system offered by Lakoff is insufficient for conceptualizing the US policy regarding the Ukraine conflict, and claims that the choice of cognitive construals is governed by the context in which they are used and by the perspective adopted.

As marcas linguísticas na construção das representações discursivas de vítima em inquéritos policiais

This paper aims at aspects of a study on the textual analysis of legal discourse, focusing on the discursive representation of the victim in police inquiry documents related to cases of investigation of violence against women. The study is part of the general theoretical framework of Text Linguistics (LT) and, more specifically, of Textual Discourses Analysis, drawn up by the linguist Jean-Michel Adam (2011a). The concept of discursive representation proposed by TDA is one of the most important categories related to the semantic configuration in this analytical approach.

As marcas linguísticas na construção das representações discursivas de vítima em inquéritos policiais

This paper aims at aspects of a study on the textual analysis of legal discourse, focusing on the discursive representation of the victim in police inquiry documents related to cases of investigation of violence against women. The study is part of the general theoretical framework of Text Linguistics (LT) and, more specifically, of Textual Discourses Analysis, drawn up by the linguist Jean-Michel Adam (2011a). The concept of discursive representation proposed by TDA is one of the most important categories related to the semantic configuration in this analytical approach.

Blackfoot causative formation between lexicon and grammar

AbstractThis article considers the treatment of causatives in Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) in relation to questions regarding the division of labor between the Grammar and the Lexicon in Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG). The focus is on causative constructions in which the causativizer affixes to the verb in so-called polysynthetic languages. In this respect the article also contributes to the treatment of polysynthesis in FDG. The central question is whether the causative construction is a derived lexeme created in the lexicon and inserted into the grammatical structure as a single lexical unit, or whether it is created in the grammar as a synthetic construction involving two lexical units. The article describes the pertinent morphosyntactic and semantic properties of causative constructions in Blackfoot, a polysynthetic language belonging to the Algonquian language family. I show that such constructions contain two events, each with their own semantic properties including argument structure and modifiability. In FDG this is accounted for by analyzing the semantic configuration at the Representational Level of analysis as a complex Episode consisting of two States-of-Affairs, while analyzing the morphosyntactic configuration at the Morphosyntactic Level as a complex verbal Word containing two verbal Roots, one of which is the causativizer. The causativizer is analyzed as an independent verbal lexeme stored in the lexicon rather than as derivational morpheme. This analysis follows logically from the way in which FDG conceptualizes polysynthesis, namely as a morphological type which allows the presence of more than one lexical element within a single word.

The Trinidadian ‘Theory of Mind’

In this paper, we study the cultural semantics of the personhood constructmindin Trinidadian creole.We analyze the lexical semantics of the word and explore the wider cultural meanings of the concept in contrastive comparison with the Anglo concept. Our analysis demonstrates that the Anglo concept is a cognitively oriented construct with a semantic configuration based on ‘thinking’ and ‘knowing’, whereas the Trinidadianmindis a moral concept configured around perceptions of ‘good’ and ‘bad’. We further explore the Trinidadian moral discourse ofbad mindandgood mind, and articulate a set of cultural scripts for the cultural values linked with personhood in the Trinidadian context. Taking a postcolonial approach to the semantics of personhood, we critically engage with Anglo-international discourses ofthe mind, exposing the conceptual stranglehold of the colonial language (i.e., English) and its distorting semantic grip on global discourse. We argue that creole categories of values and personhood — such as the Trinidadian concept ofmind— provide a new venue for criticalmindstudies as well as for new studies in creole semantics and cultural diversity.

A Study on the Metadata based on the Semantic Structure of the Korean Studies Research Articles

The purpose of this study is to build a metadata set based on the semantic structure of the Korean studies research articles. For this purpose, we analyzed the related researches which suggested the semantic structure of the research articles, categorized the concepts of author keywords of the Korean studies research articles, and drew the metadata set of 16 elements from the results of the analysis and the categorization. The significance of this study is that it propose a semantic metadata configuration methodology which can reflect the scholarly sense-making of researchers in Korean studies. Especially, this study is significant because it reflects the keywords which was given by the actual researchers to examine the content characteristics of the Korean studies research articles.

A Study of Future Internet Applications based on Semantic Web Technology Configuration Model

The need for future Internet applications based on semantic web technology should ensure the growth of industrial technologies by developing practical ones. The design direction for a next generation web based industrial application systems may be a system design that can solve the problems of semantic web, especially intelligent system, knowledge acquisition and engineering, and knowledge representation. The proposed framework aims to be used for technical engineering for industries and it could be a system design for manufacturing products, developing services, and analysis and sales. A system design should develop a framework available for real industrial fields, not just for academic research purposes. The range of an integrated design for related technologies includes the integration and redesign of existing technologies for web utilizing and the new technology design. This research proposes a configuration model of future Internet applications based on semantic web technology for logical system and adaptation to standardization theory as the conceptual model of neutral theory.

An ontology-based semantic configuration approach to constructing Data as a Service for enterprises

To align business strategies with IT systems, enterprises should rapidly implement new applications based on existing information with complex associations to adapt to the continually changing external business environment. Thus, Data as a Service (DaaS) has become an enabling technology for enterprise through information integration and the configuration of existing distributed enterprise systems and heterogonous data sources. However, business modelling, system configuration and model alignment face challenges at the design and execution stages. To provide a comprehensive solution to facilitate data-centric application design in a highly complex and large-scale situation, a configurable ontology-based service integrated platform (COSIP) is proposed to support business modelling, system configuration and execution management. First, a meta-resource model is constructed and used to describe and encapsulate information resources by way of multi-view business modelling. Then, based on ontologies, three semantic configuration patterns, namely composite resource configuration, business scene configuration and runtime environment configuration, are designed to systematically connect business goals with executable applications. Finally, a software architecture based on model-view-controller (MVC) is provided and used to assemble components for software implementation. The result of the case study demonstrates that the proposed approach provides a flexible method of implementing data-centric applications.

Data Acquisition and Quality Assurance Integration Platform Based on DPM

Direct Part Marking (DPM) is used for part identification and tracking. In order to avoid discrete information caused by quality data incompleteness or disorder in each stage of a product life cycle, especially for a large and complex product information, DPM is an effective method to ensure the security and traceability of the process quality status. Here describes a platform based on DPM data acquisition and quality assurance integration. The platform consists of data acquisition module and basic business functions; It builds semantic resource flexible service configuration framework, analyzes the discrete manufacturing resources meta-model relationship, defines semantic restful resource meta-model and uses the multi-view, multi-level, scalable manufacturing resource library. All of these are integrated in this platform. Through an experience of an enterprise, it is proved that the platform is feasible and configurable.

A Pragmatic-Cognitive Approach to Brand Names: A Case Study of Rioja Wine Brands

AbstractThis paper analyzes a collection of Rioja wine names, looking into the pragmatic and conceptual mechanisms underlying their semantic configuration. It provides some insights into their linguistic adequacy and effectiveness, and offers a preliminary assessment on the strengths and weaknesses of Rioja wine trademarks. The branding of Rioja wines has traditionally been carried out by wine producers themselves. This trend, however, seems to be changing as wine companies increasingly turn to professional branding services. A systematic application of the pragmatic and conceptual strategies isolated in this study results in a rich pool of lexical extensions. It is argued that a careful choice of the initial inventory of key notions as well as of the source concepts used in metonymic and metaphoric extensions would help to minimize the generation of negative connotations. To the same end, branding experts should also take into consideration a number of pragmatic maxims and cultural models.

A Study on Authorization Policy Management for Semantic Web

Abstract Semantic Web is what supports a search, data integration, and automated web service by developing technology of giving help so that a computer can understand information a little more on the web. As amount of information gets growing and diverse, there is a problem of offering by efficiently extracting and processing only information proper for users' demand. Semantic Web isn't what is distinguished completely from the existing web. It gives a meaning, which was well defined, to information of being inserted on web by expanding the current web. Through this, a computer and a person come to perform work cooperatively. To implement Semantic Web, the limit of HTML needs to be overcome. The existing access authorization has not taken information and semantics into account due to the limitations of HTML. It is difficult to expand or integrate many relevant documents by using HTML. Program or software agent, not a person, cannot extract a meaning of document automatically. This study suggests a method of Access Authorization Policy Management that is in the Semantic Web configuration. Accordingly, the policy, which was designed in this study, improved the authorization process more than the existing method.

MODEL OF SEMANTIC CONTEXT OF LEXEMES IN THE TEXT MINING ALGORITHMS

The model of semantic context of lexemes which represent the structure semantic configuration of lexems corpus of text arrays has been proposed. It is shown that partially ordered set of semantic concepts are formed in the lexem semantic context. Concepts’ intents are defined by semantic fields, concepts extents – by lexems.

Visões de sonhos: os estados de alma no limiar da vida e da morte

Este texto visa compreender os sistemas de significação da indústria cultural contemporânea por meio da teoria semiótica greimasiana. O objeto selecionado para análise é a narrativa seqüencial das histórias em quadrinhos (HQs). Entre as várias HQs de caráter adulto, publicadas na contemporaneidade, este trabalho destaca, como corpus, a série Sandman, cujas personagens são figurativizações de mitos da Antigüidade. O texto pretende estudar os aspectos semi-simbólicos no plano de expressão visual e também seu caráter icônico. O objetivo é entender como os mitos da Antigüidade, com toda sua carga de significados, são projetados em simulacros passionais e reconstruídos pela indústria cultural contemporânea. A respeito dos mitos, é possível formular uma configuração semântica de natureza patêmica que instaura uma nova mitologia e influi tanto no campo cognitivo quanto no campo afetivo do leitor.

Integrating knowledge maps in design process configurations for concurrently engineered product development

Concurrently engineered product development requires effective inter-functional communication and knowledge sharing across multidisciplinary teams and heterogeneous processes. This paper presents a semantics-enabled approach to the integration of knowledge maps with design process configurations to support more meaningful communication and seamless collaboration between cross-functional teams and concurrent workflows in new product introduction (NPI) processes. The proposed approach focuses on: explicit and formalized process description and configuration of NPI activities; process knowledge capture and reuse through knowledge maps; integration of knowledge maps into design process configurations; and ontology-based process model mapping and knowledge sharing to support seamless process collaboration. It thereby contributes to the development of the next generation concurrent engineering methodologies in order to achieve NPI process advances for meaningful inter-functional communication and collaboration. The approach has been implemented in a software prototype to provide the concurrently engineered product development with the capabilities of semantic process description and configuration, knowledge reuse, and process collaboration.

Model-based software configuration: patterns and languages

The common presupposition of enterprise systems (ES) is that they lead to significant efficiency gains. However, this is only the case for well-implemented ES that are well-aligned with the organisation. The list of ES implementation failures is significant which is partly attributable to the insufficiently addressed fundamental problem of adapting an ES efficiently. As long as it is not intuitively possible to configure an ES, this problem will prevail because organisations have a non-generic character. A solution to this problem consists in re-thinking current practices of ES provision. This paper proposes a new approach based on configurable process models, which reflect ES functionalities. We provide in this paper a taxonomy of situations that can occur from a business perspective during process model configuration. This taxonomy is represented via so-called semantic configuration patterns. In the next step, we discuss so-called syntactic configuration patterns. This second type of configuration patterns implements the semantic configuration patterns for specific modelling techniques. We chose two popular process modelling languages in order to illustrate our approach.

Derivational Morphology of Italian: Principles for Formalization

The present paper investigates the major derivational strategies underlying the formation of suffixed words in Italian, with the purpose of tackling the issue of their formalization. After having specified the theoretical cognitive premises that orient the work, the interacting component modules of the suffixation process, i.e. morphonology, morphotactics and affixal semantics, are explored empirically, by drawing ample naturally occurring data on a Corpus of written Italian. A special attention is paid to the semantic mechanisms that are involved into suffixation. Some semantic nuclei are identified for the major suffixed word types of Italian, which are due to word formation rules active at the synchronic level, and a semantic configuration of productive suffixes is suggested. A general framework is then sketched, which combines classical finite-state methods with a feature unification-based word grammar. More specifically, the semantic information specified for the affixal material is internalised into the structures of the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG). The formal model allows us to integrate the various modules of suffixation. In particular, it treats, on the one hand, the interface between morphonology/morphotactics and semantics and, on the other hand, the interface between suffixation and inflection. Furthermore, since LFG exploits a hierarchically organised lexicon in order to structure the information regarding the affixal material, affixal co-selectional restrictions are advatageously constrained, avoiding potential multiple spurious analysis/ generations.

Register Analysis in Literary Translation

It is the aim of this paper to argue that register characterisation plays a relevant part in the translation-oriented ananlysis of literary texts. Register is defined (e.g., by Michael Halliday) as a semantic configuration that we associate with a particular situation type and characterised on the basis of three variables or components: field, tenor and mode. Contemporary stylistics, insofar as it is a stylistics of discourse and not only of text, emphasises the importance of the study of context in literary texts. As different scholars have pointed out, the context of literary texts is rather peculiar in that it shows a double articulation: there is an outer context and an inner context. It is precisely in the characterisation of the inner context that register analysis will prove helpful, as it will shed light on the fictional situation created within the text. Although the detailed implication of register analysis for literary translation can be manifold, only a few items are singled out for illustration: degree of technicality and marked field mixing with regard to the variable of field, terms of address (especially T/V pronoun distinctions) and modality with respect to tenor, and the interplay between grammatical complexity and lexical density as markers of oral and written language in the area of mode. Even though the notion of register cannot account for all contextual factors (over and above the context of situation there is the wider context of culture), register analysis still emerges as a powerful analytical tool and a necessary one, too, for communicative acts hinge upon the context of situation in which they occur. In translation-oriented textual analysis, register characterisation constitutes a good point of entry, for it offers an initial interpretative hypothesis which then has to be substantiated against the textual evidence provided by linguistic structures and refined or modified by reference to the broader context of culture.

Semantic configuration management model using a path dependence flow graph

Semantic configuration management model using a path dependence flow graph

Semantic configuration management model using a path dependence flow graph

Semantic configuration management model using a path dependence flow graph