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This monograph aims to serve as a catalyst for the publication of high-quality papers on topics of importance for today´s society related to knowledge and language representation by delving into the latest approaches and methodologies within this field, particularly in the context of natural language understanding and processing.

Throughout the lens of cognitive science, the chapters showcase fresh insights into the construction and representation of meaning and knowledge, drawing upon notions, concepts, and analytical tools from sociology, artificial intelligence (AI), and various branches of linguistics, including functional, cognitive, computational and corpus linguistics.

Many of the chapters feature studies carried out within competitive research projects to illustrate the synergy between theoretical and computational linguistics alongside NLP techniques, which has yielded applications in sociology, sentiment analysis, and dementia pre-diagnosis. Other chapters present innovative research on the organizational power of metonymy and conceptual metaphor, on the implicational constructions and attitudinal and denotational figures of speech in the context of irony, as well as on the cognitive nature of attenuation and related figures like meiosis and litotes. Likewise, this monograph includes the latest research in the Formalised Lexical-Constructional Grammar (FL_CxG), highlighting its potential as a robust model of unification grammar with computational implementations.

In sum, this edited volume offers valuable reading and challenging ideas for (post)graduate students, researchers and scholars with an interest in these fields. There exists a distinct demand and opportunity for a publication that establishes a compelling link between the advancements in linguistics and computational models. The editors and authors believe that this work is a timely and pertinent scholarly addition to the significant needs within the domains of functional-cognitive and corpus linguistics, sociology, AI, and NLP.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Rocío Jiménez-Briones
Avelino Corral Esteban

I KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION FOR SOCIAL SENSING AND LANGUAGE

Chapter 1.—Exploring problems through social media: The case of Beach Quality
Carlos Periñán-Pascual

Chapter 2.—Description of social problems by means of schemas related to the Income domain in the DIAPASON platform

Ángel Felices-Lago

Chapter 3.—Integrating corpus methodology into the construction of an intelligent crowdsensing system

Pedro Ureña Gómez-Moreno

Chapter 4.—Social media detection of texts on the social problem of violence against women within the multimodal intelligent system ALLEGRO
Ángela Alameda Hernández

Chapter 5.—Exploring the creation of synthetic corpora of negative communicative functions for the task of communicative function identification
Nicolás José Fernández-Martínez

Chapter 6.—Negation as a polarity shifter in English: An NLP approach
Yolanda Blázquez-López

Chapter 7.—A hybrid conceptual model using statistical and linguistic methods for prescreening memory through language and cognition
Kulvinder Panesar
María Beatriz Pérez Cabello de Alba

II KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION FOR COGNITION AND LANGUAGE

Chapter 8.—The Spanish implicational constructicon: A case study from the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics
María Sandra Peña-Cervel
Carla Ovejas-Ramírez

Chapter 9.—Cognitive operations in anglicized Moroccan fragrance brand names
María Enriqueta Cortés de los Ríos
Fatima Azzahraa El Yamlahi

Chapter 10.—A cognitive-pragmatic account of axiological neutrality in ironic constructions 
Inés Lozano Palacio

Chapter 11.—Revisiting understatement: A cognitive-linguistic approach 
Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
María Sandra Peña-Cervel

III KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION FOR SYNTAX AND LANGUAGE

Chapter 12.—Encoding reference phrases into AVMs in the Formalised Lexical-Constructional Grammar
Emmanuel Hernández Hernández

Chapter 13.—Interrogatives in the Formalized Lexical-Constructional Model (FL_CxG): The case of polar questions
María Auxiliadora Martín-Díaz
Marta González-Orta

Chapter 14.—Feature-based representations of the ‘spray/load’ alternation: A Formalised Lexical-Constructional Grammar account
Carolina Rodríguez-Juárez