Ontological Proxies to Augment the Expressiveness of Discourse Analysis

Proceedings of the Workshop on Hybrid Intelligence for Natural Language Processing Tasks HI4NLP (co-located at ECAI-2020) Santiago de Compostela, August 29, 2020.Discourse analysis usually focuses on what is being said, following the text very literally, and pays little or no attention to the world to which the text refers. We argue that considering the ontology to which a discourse refers as well as the text itself provides a richer and more useful representation of the discourse. To this end, we propose the notion of ontological proxies, i.e. conceptual artefacts that connect elements in the argumentation structure to the associated ontology elements.Peer reviewe