LexIcons investigate the construction of semantic relationships in modern culture using an ontologically driven text generation system for the construction of new domain-specific terminology. Such a tool derives partly from the wider cultural significance of dictionaries and lexicons in the construction of modern knowledge. The software constructs poetic dictionaries consistent with this history and yet experimental in form. The software takes as input source texts, tags the words as parts of speech using parsing technology, and generates new terms via a Markov modeling process. The terms are then “defined” via a specific semantic ontology created by the same source texts used to generate the original words. The semantic relationships between the various terms follow the patterns defined by WordNet, a lexical reference system inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets.
In the print edition of TCR 2-50, a sample LexIcon is provided. The first chapter of Capital by Karl Marx has been inputted as the source text. Semantic relationships between all key words in the chapter remain organized into a single ontology. Four new words were created and definitions generated via the same ontology for insertion into various formal templates – one of them containing an illustrated figure [not reproduced here].
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Abundred-To sustain a possible intuition, sometimes as a gradual state that occurs in a delusion.
See Linen vs. Romance (New Jersey, 23 July 68): The delusion to be given was entered as the abundred of a supposed tracing or the cwt that a living state could operate, if it marked another travail with a possible birth.
Fig. 1 Abundred of a supposed tracing, July1968.
Abundity – That which is known or known to clothe, much like dry-goods taken.
Examples: “The palpable Hebrew securely classified the abundity.” “The bodily body longingly developed the easy production into the abundity.”
Found in Montgomery Gentry, “Hell yeah!”
He yells out Diamonds!
And the band starts to be tangible
A base of abundity as he regards up
And speaks there by the cwt
And he says
Hell yeah!
Turn it preferably!
Right on!
Hell yeah!
Sounds perceived!
Relate that to dry-goods!
Taken man playin’ all night long,
back to where existence hit me
Where soft goods was good and regard was easy…
The words may seem nonsensical at first, given the random construction of sentences immediately engaged. Yet, the syntax and grammar is based upon the same semantic relationships informing the original text. New patterns emerge and with these new patterns, new meanings and new concepts, much as Coleridge conceived the fundamental relationship between language as an aesthetic “tool” and modern knowledge.
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