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The document discusses plans to exploit semi-structured sources like ConceptNet to compute values for conceptual space dimensions and test the approach on biomedical domains. It also discusses releasing the conceptual spaces resource in an open format and how the approach may benefit natural language processing tasks requiring wide coverage like summarization, question answering, and information retrieval.

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October 1, 2014 lieto14hybrid˙˙final

are currently investigating how to exploit information provided by semi-structured

sources such as ConceptNet2 to compute the values required to fill the conceptual
space dimensions. Furthermore, we plan to test the proposed approach in the area
of biomedical domain in order to assess disease diagnosis tasks by using in S2 an
ontology such as SNOWMED,3 and in S1 conceptual spaces representing the typi-
cal symptoms of a given disease. Moreover, the conceptual spaces information can
be globally seen as an effort to provide some portions of the WordNet hierarchy
with a conceptual-spaces annotation. For the next future, we plan to release the
conceptual spaces resource in open format.
Finally, the obtained results show that this approach may be beneficial to a
plethora of NLP tasks where a wide-coverage is required, such as summarization
(also in a multilingual setting), question answering and information retrieval.

Acknowledgment

This work has been partly supported by the Ateneo-San Paolo project number
TO call03 2012 0046, The role of visual imagery in lexical processing (RVILP). The
first author’s work is also partially supported by the CNR F.A.C.I.L.E. project
ICT.P08.003.001.
The authors kindly thank Leo Ghignone, for working to an earlier version of the
system; Marcello Frixione, for discussions and advices on the theoretical aspects of
this approach; the anonymous reviewers, whose valuable suggestions were helpful
to improve the work; Manuela Sanguinetti, for her comments on a previous version
of the article. We also thank the attendees of the ConChaMo 4 Workshop,1 orga-
nized by the University of Helsinki, and the participants of the Spatial Colloquium
Workshop organized by the Spatial Cognition Center of the University of Bremen2
for their comments and insights to initial versions of this work: in particular, we
thank David Danks, Christian Freksa, Peter Gärdenfors, Ismo Koponen, and Paul
Thagard.
We especially thank Leonardo Lesmo, beloved friend and colleague no longer
with us, who strongly encouraged the present line of research.

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2 http://conceptnet5.media.mit.edu.
3 http://www.b2international.com/portal/snow-owl.
1 http://conceptualchange.it.helsinki.fi/workshops/conchamo4/.
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