In:Mathematical Modelling in Linguistics and Text Analysis: Theory and applications
Edited by Adam Pawłowski, Sheila Embleton, Jan Mačutek and Aris Xanthos
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 370] 2025
► pp. 161–172
Linguistic correlates of semantic knowledge ontologies
An example of UDC and DDC classification
Published online: 13 October 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.370.14paw
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.370.14paw
Abstract
This chapter provides a comparative analysis of bibliographic corpora including titles extracted from
large national bibliographies (Czech, Finnish, German, Norwegian, and Polish). From the examined corpora, subsets were
obtained, corresponding to the basic categories of the DDC/UDC formal ontologies (Dewey Decimal Classification and Universal
Decimal Classification). The most relevant sets of keywords were then generated from these subsets and projected onto a common
semantic space using automatic translation. The study revealed the existence of common ‘European’ sets of terms, corresponding
to the large semantic domains defined in the DDC/UDC ontology.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Research material
- 3.Goals and hypotheses
- 4.Previous research
- 5.Methods applied
- 6.Results
- 7.Conclusions and discussion
Notes References
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