Linguistic realization of conceptual features in terminographic dictionary definitions

Abstract

In the knowledge society, researchers on lexicography recognize the need to advance in the structure of dictionary information so that it can be understood by people and computers. In relation with dictionary definitions, the adoption of models or templates would be advantageous for the generation of complete definitions and also for the extraction of semantic information from them. In this study, we manually analyzed specialized dictionary definitions of the ceramic field belonging to the conceptual groups of ceramic processes and ceramic defects in order to identify the relevant conceptual features, such as physical aspect or function, and the linguistic realization of these features in the definitions. Results can help to extract information from definitions and to also generate formalized dictionary definitions.