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Context has Category:OntologyElement and is an element of TestPattern
Name: Context
Type: owl:Class
Description: Any context for semiotic entities, e.g.:
- a situation (the circumstantial context of denoted entities)
- a paradigm (the cultural context of expressed Meaning(s))
- a co-text (the informational context of Expression(s))
- a frame or relation (the relational context of Meaning(s))
- a community (the social context of conceptualizing Agent(s))
- a place (the spatial context of denoted entities)
Notice that certain contexts can be given independently from the entities that are contextualized,
while others need a core entity and a rule to build its neighborhood. For example, a scientific theory is a Meaning that works as a context for its concepts, and can be given independently from those concepts, which can remain implicit to a certain extent.
On the contrary, a cotext is actually a neighborhood of a certain chunk of text, which can be built based on a syntagmatic rule (all words from the sentence where the chunk occurs), an associative rule (all terms that are related to the chunk across the texts of a corpus,
given a certain statistical threshold), etc.
