Kategorialised

Kategorialised is a neologism used to describe the act or process of expressing a system, data set, or analysis within a categorial framework. The term blends categorial, relating to categories or categorial grammar, with the suffix -ised (the British spelling of -ized). It is encountered mainly in niche fields that emphasize classification, compositionality, and abstraction through category-based structures.

In linguistics, kategorialisation can refer to encoding linguistic structures using a categorial grammar, where syntactic types (such as S, NP, VP) and combinatory rules determine well-formed expressions. In mathematics and computer science, the term may describe modeling with category theory or related formalisms, emphasizing morphisms, functors, and composition rather than atomic rules.

The usage is not standardized, and interpretations can vary by discipline. A typical sense is to convert representations to a categorial form to simplify analysis, improve modularity, or enable formal reasoning about structure and transformation.

Example: A researcher kategorialised a corpus by mapping syntactic annotations to a small set of categories and defining parse operations as category-theoretic morphisms. This approach can allow flexible, compositional integration of linguistic analyses.

See also: categorial grammar, category theory, categorization, modularity, morphism. References to the broader literatures on categorial grammar and category-theoretic approaches in linguistics and computer science provide context for the term.