A conceptual theory of part-whole relations and its applications
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This paper shows two applications of a theory of part-whole relations that has been introduced in [1] in two different areas: natural language semantics and modelling parts of physical objects. A short overview of the theory will be given, followed by two sections which present results in the two application areas. In Section 2 we provide an analysis of the domain of solid objects like devices, buildings and other artifacts of our daily life. We first examine in more detail the relevant part-whole relations in that domain. The second part describes how these relations can be represented and manipulated in a hybrid system. In Section 3 it will be shown that there is a strong and immediate correspondence between classes of part-whole-relations and syntactically or lexically motivated classes of genitive constructions. The two applications illustrate the generality of the theory as well as its usefulness for representing and reasoning about part-whole information in totally different domains.
论文关键词:Commonsense knowledge,Compositional structure,Diagrammatic reasoning,Formal mereology,Knowledge representation,Natural language processing,Part-whole relations
论文评审过程:Received 10 June 1995, Revised 14 December 1995, Accepted 21 December 1995, Available online 16 February 1999.
论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0169-023X(96)00014-6