%0 Journal Article %T The COHERENT Methodology in FunGramKB %A Carlos Peri£¿¨¢n-Pascual %A Ricardo Mairal-Us¨®n %J Onom¨¢zein : Revista de Ling¨¹¨ªstica, Filolog¨ªa y Traducci¨®n %D 2011 %I Facultad de Letras - Pontificia Universidad Cat¨®lica de Chile %X Recent research has been done synergistically between FunGramKB, a lexical-conceptual knowledge base, and the Lexical Constructional Model, a linguistic meaning construction model. since concepts are claimed to play an important role in the design of the cognitive-linguistic interface, this paper discusses the methodology adopted in structuring the basic conceptual level in the FunGramKB Core Ontology. more particularly, we describe our four-phase COHERENT methodology (i.e. COnceptualization + HiErarchization + REmodelling + refinemeNT), which guided the cognitive mapping of the defining vocabulary in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. %K FunGramKB %K ontology %K concept %K natural language processing. %U http://www.onomazein.net/24/01.pdf