[Sigcr-l] Reading about how culture/language affects knowledge representation

[Dagobert Soergel]

A beginning student asked me

Could you recommend a reading about how culture/language affects 
knowledge representation?

Does anyone know of the one or two articles that introduce this 
problem, or a bibliography?  A good treatment of cultural focus (or 
bias) in classifications, such as DDC or the Colon Classification, 
would certainly fit in here.

Dagobert


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