[topicmapmail] Primitive roles.

[Murray Altheim]

David Martul wrote:
> Hi all
> Hello everybody,
> I think when you are working with an editor of topic maps you need 
> define a set of primitive roles for your particular domain, it's like 
> to build a thesaurus. You define your vocabulary terms and you have 
> defined with association, equivalence and hierarchical relationships 
> not only the relation between terms of your vocabulary, although you 
> have implied the role of one term with another because you've defined 
> a kind of relationship in your domain. eg: Peter is father of Henry. 
> The role of Peter (instance of class Person)wich you can define in 
> your Topic Map about members of your Parish is hierarchical and in 
> your Topic Map about your family you can define it like class/instance 
> for define a filial relationship.
> Best Regards
> Is it possible to set a set of primitive roles (in order to avoid 
> variations) 
> based on the Linguistic semantic roles?, that is:
> 
> Agent, Patient, Objetc, Source, Intrument, etc.

Teresa,

It's certainly possible to do so, but it occurs to me (given your
background) that you might want to look into using some sort of
hybrid Faceted Classification system, where all role types are
descendant classes from either an "ur" role type or simply part of
a larger ontology. The latter is the approach I've been taking. If
you like, I'd be happy to correspond with you either on- or off-list
regarding this. I've been trying to work with two FC researchers in
London, but this hasn't happened very fast (e.g., it's taken several
months to get a return on a given email).

Murray

> Thank you,
> Teresa 
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