TY  - CHAP
U1  - Teil eines Buches
A1  - Gibbon, Dafydd
A1  - Hughes, Baden
A1  - Trippel, Thorsten
ED  - Spiliopoulou, Myra
ED  - Kruse, Rudolf
ED  - Borgelt, Christian
ED  - Nürnberger, Andreas
ED  - Gaul, Wolfgang
T1  - Semantic decomposition of character encodings for linguistic knowledge discovery
T2  - From Data and Information Analysis to Knowledge Engineering
N2  - Analysis and knowledge representation of linguistic objects tends to focus on larger units (e.g. words) than print medium characters. We analyse characters as linguistic objects in their own right, with meaning, structure and form. Characters have meaning (the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet denote phonetic categories, the character represented by the glyph ‘∪’ denotes set union), structure (they are composed of stems and parts such as descenders or diacritics or are ligatures), and form (they have a mapping to visual glyphs). Character encoding initatives such as Unicode tend to concentrate on the structure and form of characters and ignore their meaning in the sense discussed here. We suggest that our approach of including semantic decomposition and defining font–based namespaces for semantic character domains provides a long–term perspective of interoperability and tractability with regard to data–mining over characters by integrating information about characters into a coherent semiotically–based ontology. We demonstrate these principles in a case study of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
KW  - Bedeutung
KW  - Semantik
KW  - Zeichen
KW  - Codierung
KW  - Dekomposition
Y1  - 2006
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-126517
SN  - 978-3-540-31314-4
SB  - 978-3-540-31314-4
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31314-1_44
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31314-1_44
SP  - 366
EP  - 373
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
ER  -