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visual and sound objects (enabling us to understand the expression, the
audiovisual
miseenscène
of an object in the text being analyzed); and, finally,
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the so-called reflexive objects which serve to explicitize the content and the
objectives of an analysis itself.
These various categories of objects of analysis play a particular role, remember,
in the definition and development of models for describing the content of
audiovisual corpora. However, the ASW Studio (that is, its Description Workshop)
is equipped with yet more families of models which serve the paratextual description
of an audiovisual text or corpus, its translation and adaptation for a given audience,
etc. These models use categories of objects of analysis which we do not use for
describing the content - for instance, categories of analytical objects which serve to
identify an audiovisual text or corpus, to explicitize their cognitive or intellectual
specificity, or to explicitize their uses.
All these categories of analytical objects (whether or not they are used in the
construction of models aimed more specifically at analyzing the content of an
audiovisual text or corpus) form the referential domain of the vocabulary belonging
to the first part of the ASW meta-lexicon of conceptual terms, i.e. the vocabulary
whose basic conceptual term is
[Objectofanalysis]
of the ASW
discourse-object*
.
Figure 11.3 shows that this vocabulary of conceptual terms can be broken down
into three branches whose basic conceptual terms are: [Object “Endurant”],
[Object “Perdurant”] and [Object “Region”]. Together, they form the canonic basis
of the vocabulary of the ASW meta-lexicon relating to the domains of knowledge
thematized (or thematizable) in the ASW universe of discourse. We shall offer
explanations and a detailed presentation of these in Chapters 12 and 13.
The interface showing the ASW meta-lexicon of conceptual terms in Figure 11.3
is that of a tool for designing and developing metalinguistic resources, called
OntoEditor
2
(see below, section 11.8).
In the previous chapters, we have given an extensive discussion of a whole series
of specific analytical or descriptive activities which make up the procedures of free
and/or controlled description of an object or set of objects of analysis. These
activities, along with all those which we need to carry out the other tasks of analysis
or translation-adaptation, form the referential domain of the second part of the
ASW meta-lexicon of conceptual terms, i.e. the vocabulary based on the conceptual
term
[Analyticalprocedure]
.
2 OntoEditor is an xml editor developed by Francis Lemaitre of ESCoM, as part of the
SAPHIR and ASW-HSS R&D projects, financed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche
(ANR). Today it constitutes the software part of the ASW Modeling Workshop.
