Intermediate forms

• From: Cristiano Longo <cristianolongo@opendatahacklab.org>
• Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 12:47:23 +0100
• To: public-ontolex@w3.org
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Good morning all. In my last work I faced with strings that, in my 
opinion, cannot be modelled using ontolex:Form, as they are just 
"intermediate forms" which does not belong to any language.

An example is reported in Figure 2 at 
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3809/paper2.pdf. Here the latin word "patrem" 
changes to an intermediate form "padrem" through lenition, and finally 
becomes the italian word "padre".

However, the notion of intermediate forms was previously introduced in 
the areas concerning phonology and morfology, as reported in [1].

To deal with such intermediate forms I introduced a new superclass of 
ontolex:Form (i.e., LanguageObject). However, I'm not really sure that 
this design choice is correct. Of course, intermediate forms are not morphs.

I wonder if there are other works where these kind of strings have been 
modelled in OWL.

Any suggestion and hint is wellcome,

thanks in advance,

CL

[1] A. Hurskainen, K. Koskenniemi, T. Pirinen, L. Antonsen, E. Axelson, 
E. Bick, B. Gaup, S. Hardwick,
K. Hiovain, F. Karlsson, K. Lindén, I. Listenmaa, I. Mikkelsen, S. 
Moshagen, A. Ranta, J. Rueter,
D. Swanson, T. Trosterud, L. Wiechetek, Rule-Based Language Technology, 
2023.

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