Midwinters, end games, and body parts: a classification of part-whole relations

Gerstl, Peter; Pribbenow, Simone

doi:10.1006/ijhc.1995.1079

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“…Simons (1987), Smith andVarzi (1999), andStjernfelt (2007) are useful sources that also directly address some of the biological issues of concern here. Moreover, literature in cognitive science and semantics identifies various types of part-whole relations, and makes explicit reference to formal mereology (e.g., Winston et al 1987;Gerstl and Pribbenow 1995). Descriptions of part-whole relations include: (i) "heterogeneously structured complex [es]" that "compris[e] different sorts of components" (Gerstl and Pribbenow 1995, p. 879, their emphasis) as well as (ii) three types of inclusion relations: (a) spatial ("x is a topological part of y"), (b) class ("x is a type of y"), and (c) truly mereonymic ("x is a part-of y") (Winston et al 1987, pp.…”

Section: Abstracted Parts and Partitioning Framesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Part-whole science

Winther

2009

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A scientific explanatory project, part-whole explanation, and a kind of science, part-whole science are premised on identifying, investigating, and using parts and wholes. In the biological sciences, mechanistic, structuralist, and historical explanations are part-whole explanations. Each expresses different norms, explananda, and aims. Each is associated with a distinct partitioning frame for abstracting kinds of parts. These three explanatory projects can be complemented in order to provide an integrative vision of the whole system, as is shown for a detailed case study: the tetrapod limb. My diagnosis of part-whole explanation in the biological sciences as well as in other domains exploring evolved, complex, and integrated systems (e.g., psychology and cognitive science) cross-cuts standard philosophical categories of explanation: causal explanation and explanation as unification. Part-whole explanation is itself one essential aspect of part-whole science.

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Part-whole science

Winther

2009

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“…[1] [6] [7] [16]). For instance, Gerstl and Pribbenow [6] prefer a "common-sense theory of part-whole relations" instead, to allow for "different views on the entities". They reduce the six types of part-whole relations of WCH into three: component-complex, element-collection, and quantity-mass.…”

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Part-Whole Relations in Object-Role Models

Keet

2006

On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops

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Abstract. 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 uniqueness constraints. This enables the conceptual modeller to develop models that are closer to the real-world subject domain semantics, hence improve quality of the software.

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“…Winston, Chaffin & Herrmann (1987) identified six types of part-whole relations, including the following three additional types: stuff-object (steel-car), feature-activity (paying-shopping), and place-area. Gerstl & Pribbenow (1995) divided part-whole relations broadly into those relating to the natural structure of the whole (e.g. functional components of an object) and partitions of the whole by construction (i.e.…”

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“…Researchers have analyzed the different types of part-whole relations for data modeling and modeling of objects for various purposes (e.g. Artale, Franconi, Guarino & Pazzi, 1996;Gerstl & Pribbenow, 1995). Many ontologies specify a few types of part-whole relations.…”

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Semantic relations in information science

Khoo

2006

Annual Review Info Sci & Tec

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Abstract. This chapter examines the nature of semantic relations and their main applications in information science. The nature and types of semantic relations are discussed from the perspectives of linguistics and psychology. An overview of the semantic relations used in knowledge structures such as thesauri and ontologies are provided, as well as the main techniques used in the automatic extraction of semantic relations from text. The chapter then reviews the use of semantic relations in information extraction, information retrieval, question-answering and automatic text summarization applications.

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Midwinters, end games, and body parts: a classification of part-whole relations

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