RE: [topicmaps-comment] linguist's question

["Mason, James David (MXM) " <mxm@ornl.gov>]

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


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> Sent:	Monday, October 29, 2001 11:42 PM
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> 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
> 
> 
> 
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