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Part-whole relations in object-centered systems: An overview

Data & Knowledge Engineering, 1996
Summary: Knowledge bases, data bases and object-oriented systems (referred to in the paper as Object-Centered systems) all rely on attributes as the main construct used to associate properties to objects; among these, a fundamental role is played by the so-called part-whole relation.
A. Artale, E. Franconi, N. Guarino, PAZZI, Luca   +3 more
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Parthood and part–whole relations in Zulu language and culture

Applied Ontology, 2020
Part–whole relations are pervasive throughout domain ontologies and enjoy interest also in, inter alia, NLP and manufacturing, and by philosophers in the scope of mereology. There exist a stable list of part–whole relations that are assumed to be common, yet for isiZulu, among other languages, there were at least linguistic differences. This raises the
Keet, C. Maria, Khumalo, Langa
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Part-Whole Relations in Object-Role Models

2006
Representing parthood relations in ORM has received little attention, despite its added-value of the semantics at the conceptual level We introduce a high-level taxonomy of types of meronymic and mereological relations, use it to construct a decision procedure to determine which type of part-whole role is applicable, and incrementally add mandatory and
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Representing and reasoning over a taxonomy of part–whole relations

Applied Ontology, 2008
Many types of part–whole relations have been proposed in the literature to aid the conceptual modeller to choose the most appropriate type, but many of those relations lack a formal specification to give clear and unambiguous semantics to them. To remedy this, a formal taxonomy of types of mereological and meronymic part–whole relations is presented ...
Keet, C. Maria, Artale, Alessandro
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On the transitivity of the part-whole relation

Journal of Linguistics, 1979
The expression is part of can be used in a number of different senses. One might cite as examples:A sheep is part of a flock. A priest is part of the clergy. Changing nappies is part of being a mother.A petal is part of a flower. But one does not ask What are the parts of the clergy? or What are the parts of being a mother?
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A Developmental Study of Part-Whole Relations in Visual Perception

The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1973
Abstract Children aged 5 to 9 years matched the shape of (a) small squares embedded in large rectangles and (b) small rectangles embedded in large squares. Predictions made were that (a) the influence of the whole on the perception of the part would be greatest at the 5-year-old level and (b) this effect of the whole would make the parts look to the ...
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A conceptual theory of part-whole relations and its applications

Data & Knowledge Engineering, 1996
Abstract 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
Peter Gerstl, Simone Pribbenow
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FCPN: Pruning redundant part-whole relations for more streamlined pattern parsing

Neural Networks
Cropping-and-segmenting pattern parsers often combine diverse inner correlations into a single metric/scheme, resulting in over-generalizations and redundant representations. It is proposed to streamline pattern parsing by using presenting a redundant association elimination network (RAEN) with capsule attention twisters (CATs) and capsule-attention ...
Zhongqi, Lin, Linye, Xu, Zengwei, Zheng
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A Typed Approach for Contextualizing the Part-Whole Relation

2013
In the domain of knowledge representation as well as in Conceptual Modeling, representing part-whole relations is a long-stand-ing challenging problem. Most approaches addressing this issue rely on a set-theoretical framework, but many difficulties remain especially for disambiguating transitivity.
Richard Dapoigny, Patrick Barlatier
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Towards Ontological Correctness of Part-whole Relations with Dependent Types

2010
Generally, part-whole relations are modeled using fragments of first-order logic(FOL) and difficulties arise when meta-reasoning is done over their properties, leading to reason outside the logic. Alternatively, classical languages for ontological reasoning such as Description Logics + Logic Programming lack of expressive formal foundations resulting ...
Dapoigny Richard, Barlatier Patrick
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