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Semantic primitives (IEKO)

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Table of contents: 1. Introduction: levels of part-whole relations 2. Semantic primitives 3. Compositionality and componential analysis     3.1 Compositionality     3.2 Componential analysis 4. Theoretical perspectives     4.1 Empiricism     4.2 Rationalism     4.3 Historicism     4.4 Pragmatism     4.5 Atomism versus holism     4.6 The analogy with the periodic system     4.7 Further arguments against primitives 5. Compositionality and semantic primitives in information science     5.1 Facet analysis and semantic factoring     5.2 Szostak and basic concepts     5.3 Thesauri and Spärck Jones     5.4 Other examples and issues 6. Conclusion Acknowledgments Endnotes References Colophon Abstract: The term semantic primitives refers to a set of basic, atomic concepts from which all other (compound) concepts are constructed. It presupposes the principle of compositionality — the idea that complex items or expressions can be formed by combining simpler constituents. Both notions are of partic

home about ISKO join ISKO Knowledge Organization journal ISKO events ISKO chapters ISKO people SciTech Adv. Council ISKO publications Encyclopedia KO literature KO institutions ⇗ KOS registry 🔒 members contact us edited by Birger Hjørland and Claudio Gnoli by (This is a version of an article published in JASIST, see colophon.) Table of contents: 1. Introduction: levels of part-whole relations 2. Semantic primitives 3. Compositionality and componential analysis 3.1 Compositionality 3.2 Componential analysis 4. Theoretical perspectives 4.1 Empiricism 4.2 Rationalism 4.3…

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