Overview
- Editors:
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Rebecca Green
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College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
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Carol A. Bean
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Extramural Programs, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, USA
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Sung Hyon Myaeng
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Natural Language and Information Retrieval Laboratory, Division of Information and Communication, College of Engineering, Chungnam National University, Taejon, Korea
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xviii
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Types of Relationships
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- Christopher Khoo, Syin Chan, Yun Niu
Pages 51-70
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Relationships in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
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- Nicola Guarino, Christopher Welty
Pages 111-126
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Applications of Relationships
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Front Matter
Pages 141-141
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- Christopher Khoo, Sung Hyon Myaeng
Pages 161-180
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- Alexa T. McCray, Olivier Bodenreider
Pages 181-198
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Back Matter
Pages 219-225
About this book
The genesis of this volume was the participation of the editors in an ACMlSIGIR (Association for Computing Machinery/Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval) workshop entitled "Beyond Word Relations" (Hetzler, 1997). This workshop examined a number of relationship types with significance for information retrieval beyond the conventional topic-matching relationship. From this shared participation came the idea for an edited volume on relationships, with chapters to be solicited from researchers and practitioners throughout the world. Ultimately, one volume became two volumes. The first volume, Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge (Bean & Green, 200 I), examines the role of relationships in knowledge organization theory and practice, with emphasis given to thesaural relationships and integration across systems, languages, cultures, and disciplines. This second volume examines relationships in a broader array of contexts. The two volumes should be seen as companions, each informing the other. As with the companion volume, we are especially grateful to the authors who willingly accepted challenges of space and time to produce chapters that summarize extensive bodies of research. The value of the volume clearly resides in the quality of the individual chapters. In naming this volume The Semantics of Relationships: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, we wanted to highlight the fact that relationships are not just empty connectives. Relationships constitute important conceptual units and make significant contributions to meaning.
Editors and Affiliations
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College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Rebecca Green
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Extramural Programs, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, USA
Carol A. Bean
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Natural Language and Information Retrieval Laboratory, Division of Information and Communication, College of Engineering, Chungnam National University, Taejon, Korea
Sung Hyon Myaeng
