Parties du corps et approche orientée objets
Body Parts in the Object-Oriented Approach
Author(s): Anna Grigowicz Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: automatic translation; lexicographical description; electronic databases; object class; approprié operator; polisemic predicate; disambiguisation; usage; semantic inheritance; superclass; subclass; part-whole relation
Summary/Abstract: In this article the author discusses a method of lexicographic description which uses G. Gross's concept of object classes, ontological classification in the WordNet style, B. Boguraev and J. Pustejovsky's “qualia structure”, computer lexicography and automatic translation. The author focuses herself on the "object-oriented" approach to the proposed descriptions and adopts this approach to her analysis of the chosen names of body parts in French. The category of body parts, established on the basis of the ontological features of its elements, can be treated as an object class. This conclusion is justified by the fact that two operators: “avoir mal” and “soigner”, which characterize every object of the category under analysis, allow us to treat this category as an object class in the object-oriented approach.
Journal: Neophilologica
- Issue Year: 2004
- Issue No: 16
- Page Range: 20-41
- Page Count: 22
- Language: French