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The Semantics of Relationships : An Interdisciplinary Perspective /

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Work on relationships takes place in many communities, including data modeling, knowledge representation, natural language processing, linguistics, and information retrieval. Unfortunately, continued disciplinary splintering and specialization keeps any one person from being familiar with the full e...

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Main Author: Green, Rebecca
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Bean, Carol A., Myaeng, Sung Hyon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
Series:Information science and knowledge management ; 3.
Subjects:
Computer science.
Information storage and retrieval systems.
Artificial intelligence.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • List of Contributors
  • Part I: Types of Relationships. 1. Hyponymy and Its Varieties. 2. On the Semantics of Troponymy
  • 3. Meronymic Relationships: From Classical Mereology to Complex Part-Whole Relations. 4. The Many Facets of the Cause-Effect Relation
  • Part II: Relationships in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. 5. Internally-Structured Conceptual Models in Cognitive Semantics.6. Comparing Sets of Semantic Relations in Ontologies. 7. Identity and Subsumption. 8. Logic of Relationships
  • Part III: Applications of Relationships. 9. Thesaural Relations in Information Retrieval. 10. Identifying Semantic Relations in Text for Information Retrieval and Information Extraction. 11. A Conceptual Framework for the Biomedical Domain. 12. Visual Analysis and Exploration of Relationships
  • Index.