The Semantics of Relationships An Interdisciplinary Perspective

The genesis of this volume was the participation of the editors in an ACMlSIGIR (Association for Computing Machinery/Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval) workshop entitled "Beyond Word Relations" (Hetzler, 1997). This workshop examined a number of relationship types with signif...

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Other Authors: Green, R. (Editor), Bean, C.A. (Editor), Sung Hyon Myaeng (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2002, 2002
Edition:1st ed. 2002
Series:Information Science and Knowledge Management
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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