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The ability to represent real-world objects is an important feature of a practical knowledge system. Most knowledge systems involve informal or ad-hoc mappings from their internal symbols to objects and concepts in their environment. This work introduces a framework for formally associating symbols to their meanings, a process we call grounding. Two kinds of grounding are discussed with respect to conceptual graphs – active grounding, which involves actors to provide mappings to the environment, and terminological grounding, which involves actors that establish the basic elements of meaning with respect to a subject field’s agreed-upon terminology. The work incorporates active knowledge systems and international terminological standards.
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Delugach, H.S., Rochowiak, D.M. (2008). Grounded Conceptual Graph Models. In: Eklund, P., Haemmerlé, O. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Visualization and Reasoning. ICCS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5113. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70596-3_19
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