Semantic verb classes and lexical conceptual structures for enhancing the conceptual modelling and the access to databases

Authors: Patrick Saint-Dizier

Tags: 1997, conceptual modeling

In this document, we show how linguistic tools and resources such as organized classes of verbs and their semantic representation contribute to a better database conceptual modelling of a domain. Organized verb semantic classes introduce a higher linguistic and cognitive adequacy and a greater flexibility in the definition of relations and in the overall organization of the conceptual model. They also permit the definition of advanced natural-language front-ends

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