Templates take the form of n-ary combinations of quadruples connecting together the ‘symbolic name’ of the template, a ‘conceptual predicate’ and the ‘arguments’ of the predicate introduced by named relations, the ‘roles’ (like SUBJ(ect), OBJ(ect), SOURCE, BEN(e)F(iciary), etc.). The quadruples have in common the ‘name’ and ‘predicate’ components. Denoting then with Li the symbolic label identifying the template, with Pj the predicate, with Rk the generic role and with ak the generic argument, the core data structure for templates has the format (Li (Pj (R1 a1) (R2 a2) … (Rn an))).Templates are included in an inheritance hierarchy, HTemp(lates), which implements NKRL’s ‘ontology of events’
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"Narrative" Information and the NKRL Solution
Gian Piero Zarri (LaLIC, University Paris 4-Sorbonne, France)
Copyright: © 2009
|Pages: 8
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-849-9.ch169
Abstract
In a companion article of this Encyclopaedia: ‘Narrative’ Information, the Problem, we have introduced the problem of finding a complete and computationally efficient system for representing and managing ‘nonfictional narrative information’. We have stressed there the important economic value of this multimedia type of information – that concerns, e.g., corporate memory documents, news stories, normative and legal texts, medical records, intelligence messages, surveillance videos or visitor logs, actuality photos, eLearning and Cultural Heritage material, etc. We have also emphasised that the usual Computer Science tools – including those pertaining to the now very popular ‘Semantic Web’ domain, see (Bechhofer et al., 2004, Beckett, 2004) – are not really suitable for dealing with this type of information.