Towards Lexicon-Grammar Verbnets Through Lexical Ontologies
Towards Lexicon-Grammar Verbnets Through Lexical Ontologies

Summary/Abstract: In this article, we present research directly inspired by the Princeton WordNet lexical ontology project(Miller, Fellbaum), which was a response to the real need for ontologies corresponding to thenatural conceptualization common to all language users, within a given natural language, or withina specific sublanguage. Lexical ontologies for a given language or language subsystem determinedby the scope of communication needs turn out to be useful and even necessary for constructingformal models of linguistic competence and, consequently, for designing and implementing AI systemswith linguistic communicative competence, both passive and active. An important milestoneof the research program presented in this work is the acquisition of tools in the form of extensivelexical ontologies of a new type, referred to in this work as Lexicon-Grammar Verbnets. In thearticle, we refer to the works of authors such as: Alain Colmerauer, Charles Fillmore, ChristianeFellbaum, Gaston Gross, Maurice Gross, Thomas R. Gruber, Richard Kittredge, George A. Miller,Martha Palmer, Kazimierz Polański, and Piek Vossen.

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