The ontologies of concepts concern the ‘standard’ hierarchical organizations of concepts to be used to model (in a ‘static’ way) a given domain. NKRL adds an ‘ontology of events’, i.e., a new sort of hierarchical organization where the nodes, represented by n-ary structures called ‘templates’, represent general classes of ‘dynamical’ events like “move a physical object”, “produce a service”, “send/receive a message”, etc
Published in Chapter:
"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.