From wine description to wine formalization

Abstract

In this paper we address the problem of formalizing content of the wine domain within a more general ontological context and concentrate on the adjective-noun constructions. For our research we have selected data from the web and have faced the recent evaluative adjectives introduced to describe wine these days. We show how some language uses convey aspects of meaning that should be coded as part of the lexical semantics of the noun “wine”, since understanding some metaphors is only possible if some conventional activities related to wine are considered. For this purpose, we have chosen Pustejovsky’s Qualia Structures and have suggested Conventionalized Attributes (CA) as a means to represent hidden meanings that are the bases for the correct interpretation of new metaphorical uses.