We examine the ontological evidence for synesthesia. We employ the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO), which has a complete set of manual mappings from its terms to the lexical elements in PrincetonWordNet. By looking at polysemous words that map to SUMO terms that address more than one human sensory modality, we attempt to provide an inventory of concepts. We compare this list to prior work in creating corpora of such words and concepts built exclusively for the purpose of this sort of study.
@InProceedings{PEASE18.12, author = {Adam Pease and Chu-Ren Huang}, title = {Ontology and Synesthesia: Language, Sense and the Conceptual Inventory}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {may}, date = {7-12}, location = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Barry Devereux and Ekaterina Shutova and Chu-Ren Huang}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, address = {Paris, France}, isbn = {979-10-95546-08-5}, language = {english} }
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