A theory of social agentivity and its integration into the Descriptive Ontology for linguistic and cognitive engineering

International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 62-86

  Robinson, Edward Heath ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agentivity; Descriptive ontology for linguistic and cognitive engineering (DOLCE); Ontology; Social action; Social agent

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS;

AGENTIVITY; COGNITIVE ENGINEERING; DESCRIPTIVE ONTOLOGIES; DESCRIPTIVE ONTOLOGY FOR LINGUISTIC AND COGNITIVE ENGINEERING (DOLCE); SOCIAL ACTION; SOCIAL AGENTS; SOCIAL ENTITIES; TAXONOMIC STRUCTURE;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 84860513845     PISSN: 15526283     EISSN: 15526291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/IJSWIS.2011100103     Document Type: Article

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