Ontological Proxies to Augment the Expressiveness of Discourse Analysis

Discourse analysis usually focuses on what is being said, following the text very

literally, and pays little or no attention to the world to which the text refers. We

argue that considering the ontology to which a discourse refers as well as the

text itself provides a richer and more useful representation of the discourse. To

this end, we propose the notion of ontological proxies, i.e. conceptual artefacts

that connect elements in the argumentation structure to the associated ontology

elements.

Discourse analysis. Ontology. Conceptual modelling. Argumentation.