Re: Intermediate forms

Hi Cristiano,

OntoLex does not currently have any modelling for etymology although I 
definitely think that we should have a module to support this use case.

The Form in OntoLex models a particular form of a word in a lexicon of a 
single (contemporary) language. As such you could have a form in a Latin 
lexicon and a form in an Italian lexicon, but these would have to be 
distinct entities. If a form could be created for 'padrem' it would have 
to be associated with some historical intermediate language. Forms don't 
really model 'intermediate' or reconstructed forms but are designed to 
model forms of a single language that is attested and of a particular 
time frame.

Etymology is something that I think others in the community group would 
be interested in and it would certainly be good to support it.

Regards,

John

On 20/11/2024 11:47, Cristiano Longo wrote:
> 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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