Article

Name: Language thesaurus network: steps of modeling

Authors: S. A. Osokina

In the section Linguistics

Abstract: The paper studies modern models of the thesaurus system: the system of knowledge about the world given in language signs. Most models can be described as semantic networks of different types. If we take the word as the basic thesaurus unit, it is very hard to design a system which would show not only paradigmatic relations between words but syntagmatic ones as well. Such models do not allow studying communicative functions of the thesaurus, only its role as information storage. We prove that word collocations, instead of separate words, should be considered the thesaurus units. The main argument is that set collocations suit the characteristics of knowledge listed in philosophical papers better than words. The article describes the steps of modeling the thesaurus net based on set collocations of words. The main advantage of the designed network is that its fragments can be compared with semantic networks of different types, including definitional, associative, implicational, and neural networks.

Keywords: thesaurus, semantic network, collocation, knowledge, language picture of the world

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