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Subject: RE: [topicmaps-comment] linguist's question
This is fairly close to the kinds of things I've been doing with TMs as the knowledge base for a text analyzer (though I'm looking for collocations of terms rather than for linguistic artifacts. Look at my paper from XML Europe 2001: http://www.y12.doe.gov/~mxm/open/Papers/Ferret.PDF. Jim Mason > -----Original Message----- > From: gbedja@home.com [SMTP:gbedja@home.com] > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 11:42 PM > To: topicmaps-comment@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: [topicmaps-comment] linguist's question > > As a linguist, I'm trying to figure out ways in which topic maps can > interplay with words. > > Is my thinking technically correct? > > 1. I declare 2 topics: 'information' and 'need' > 2. Then I describe their association, which is of 'phrase' type > 3. Then I reify the association as the 'information need' topic > 4. As a result, I have 'constructed' a topic from two other topics and > I can use the new topic in the same ways as the 'primary' topics, but > it has 'inner association' with the other two, and through them with > other topics. > > 1. > <topic id="information"> > <baseName> > <baseNameString>information</baseNameString> > </baseName> > </topic> > > <topic id="need"> > <baseName> > <baseNameString>need</baseNameString> > </baseName> > </topic> > > 2. > <association id="information-need"> > <instanceOf> > <topicRef xlink:href="#phrase"/> > </instanceOf> > <member> > <roleSpec> > <topicRef xlink:href="#1st-part-of-phrase"/> > </roleSpec> > <topicRef xlink:href="#information"/> > </member> > <member> > <roleSpec> > <topicRef xlink:href="#2nd-part-of-phrase"/> > </roleSpec> > <topicRef xlink:href="#need"/> > </member> > </association> > > 3. > <topic id="information-need-topic"> > <subjectIdentity> > <subjectIndicatorRef xlink:href="#information-need"/> > </subjectIdentity> > <baseName> > <baseNameString>information need</baseNameString> > </baseName> > </topic> > > Thanks, > Gen Bedjanian > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl>
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