Marriage is a Peach and a Chalice: Modelling Cultural Symbolism on the SemanticWeb
This work addresses a gap in the Semantic Web for cultural symbolism, but it is incremental as it builds on existing theories and resources.
The authors tackled the lack of modeling for cultural symbolism on the Semantic Web by introducing the Simulation Ontology and HyperReal, the first knowledge graph dedicated to this domain, enabling quantitative research as demonstrated in an initial experiment.
In this work, we fill the gap in the Semantic Web in the context of Cultural Symbolism. Building upon earlier work in, we introduce the Simulation Ontology, an ontology that models the background knowledge of symbolic meanings, developed by combining the concepts taken from the authoritative theory of Simulacra and Simulations of Jean Baudrillard with symbolic structures and content taken from "Symbolism: a Comprehensive Dictionary" by Steven Olderr. We re-engineered the symbolic knowledge already present in heterogeneous resources by converting it into our ontology schema to create HyperReal, the first knowledge graph completely dedicated to cultural symbolism. A first experiment run on the knowledge graph is presented to show the potential of quantitative research on symbolism.