ABSTRACT

The goal of this paper is to offer an analysis of urbanonyms, names for urban places, and show how this analysis can inform a conceptual taxonomy of urban places via the cultural lens of language. To reach this goal, the paper offers a classification of Italian urbanonyms (e.g., Via Nazionale “National Street”) based on data extraction from the Pagine Gialle directory, and a taxonomy of place concepts. This classification is obtained via a lexicographic analysis of extracted terms and their sense relations. A discussion of place concepts unique to cities across Italy is offered, as proof of the importance of cultural and linguistic facets. The paper concludes by discussing how these results can inform research on place ontologies across disciplines.

摘要

本文的目的是对城市地名、城市地名进行分析，并展示这种分析如何通过语言的文化视角为城市地名的概念分类提供信息。为了达到这个目标，本文基于从Pagine Gialle目录中提取的数据，提供了意大利城市地名的分类（例如， Via Nazionale “ National Street”） ，以及地点概念的分类。这种分类是通过对提取的术语及其意义关系的字典分析获得的。提供了对意大利各个城市独特的地方概念的讨论，以证明文化和语言方面的重要性。本文最后讨论了这些结果如何为跨学科的位置本体研究提供信息。