Anna Sofia Lippolis

24 papers 103 citations h-index 4 2022–2026

The Belief-Desire-Intention Ontology for modelling mental reality and agency

The Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) model is a cornerstone for representing rational agency in artificial intelligence and cognitive sciences. Yet, its integration into structured, semantically...

OntoExtend: A Framework for Requirement-driven and Scalable Ontology Extension with LLMs

Ontology extension refers to the process of enriching an existing ontology in response to emerging requirements, making it more complete. This task is a resource-intensive and error-prone process....

2026-07

When CQs Go Wrong: Challenges in CQ Verification with OE-Assist

Competency Questions (CQs) are the central component of CQ-verification, an established process in which an ontology is evaluated against a set of natural language questions to determine whether...

2026-06

Meanings are like Onions: a Layered Approach to Metaphor Processing

Metaphorical meaning is not a flat mapping between concepts, but a complex cognitive phenomenon that integrates multiple levels of interpretation. In this paper, we propose a stratified model of...

2025-07

The Medical Metaphors Corpus (MCC)

Metaphor is a fundamental cognitive mechanism that shapes scientific understanding, enabling the communication of complex concepts while potentially constraining paradigmatic thinking. Despite the...

2025-08