Authors : E.E. Williams , J.O.A. Ayeni , E. Fasina and E.O. Ukem
Abstract: When we learn a foreign language, much of our effort goes into the syntax or grammar. The same set of words with two slightly different ordering can mean completely different things and the rules for ordering are different in every language. For example, What does it taste like? and What taste does it like? are both meaningful but not the same. As Terry Winograd puts it, much of the modern linguistics has been devoted to analyzing the knowledge that underlies this ordering. Underlying all of the areas of knowledge about any language is a person’s knowledge of the world, the objects in it and the relationships between them. It is necessary to understand how world knowledge and language understanding are interrelated. Naturally, we use the superficial linguistic processes involving words, terms/objects and structures to express world knowledge. In this study, we try to develop a method for representing and ordering objects and the semantic or meaning/relationship that could be given to such representation and ordering of the objects are provided. English language, as a natural language is used for illustration in the research.
E.E. Williams , J.O.A. Ayeni , E. Fasina and E.O. Ukem , 2009. Semantic Representation of Natural Language Statements in Domain Description. International Journal of Soft Computing, 4: 116-121.