| Research Abstract |
The approach of ontology construction was employed to analyze the processes of creation and the development of cognitive research for literature-related materials. Reviewing reports published in the psychology of language and eotions, psycholinguistics, text linguistics, computational linguistics, literary theories, and film studies, we have identified four key conceptual subgroups : (i) Group of mental process oriented concepts : reader psychological processes, reader responses, knowledge structures, interpretation, memory and thinking processes, emotional responses, metaphor understanding, and aesthetic experiences. (ii) Group of text oriented concepts : text structure, rhetorical devices, metric structure, intertextuality, literary text generation, and multi-media creation. (iii) Group of context oriented concepts : cultural and social background, publishing industry, society of authors. (iv) Group of meta concepts : fiction, art, intelligence, entertainment. Each concept is connected with the areas of origin and methodologies. We propose a way visualizing those connections in terms of disciplinary-based localization. We also argue that the ontology has two practical merits : (a) a valid description of the area that is interdisciplinary in nature, and (b) a predictive description of the area that is in the process of evolution. For a tool of ontology oriented humanities research, we implemented an ontology editor that supports distributed inputs and a GUI.
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