The Semantics of Relationships

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Types of Relationships

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Hyponymy and Its Varieties

      • D. Alan Cruse

      Pages 3-21

   3. On the Semantics of Troponymy

      • Christiane Fellbaum

      Pages 23-34

   4. Meronymic Relationships: From Classical Mereology to Complex Part-Whole Relations

      • Simone Pribbenow

      Pages 35-50

   5. The Many Facets of the Cause-Effect Relation

      • Christopher Khoo, Syin Chan, Yun Niu

      Pages 51-70

3. Relationships in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. Internally-Structured Conceptual Models in Cognitive Semantics

      • Rebecca Green

      Pages 73-89

   3. Comparing Sets of Semantic Relations in Ontologies

      • Eduard Hovy

      Pages 91-110

   4. Identity and Subsumption

      • Nicola Guarino, Christopher Welty

      Pages 111-126

   5. Logic of Relationships

      • Christophe Jouis

      Pages 127-140

4. Applications of Relationships

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141

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   2. Thesaural Relations in Information Retrieval

      • Martha Evens

      Pages 143-160

   3. Identifying Semantic Relations in Text for Information Retrieval and Information Extraction

      • Christopher Khoo, Sung Hyon Myaeng

      Pages 161-180

   4. A Conceptual Framework for the Biomedical Domain

      • Alexa T. McCray, Olivier Bodenreider

      Pages 181-198

   5. Visual Analysis and Exploration of Relationships

      • Beth Hetzler

      Pages 199-217

5. Back Matter

   Pages 219-225

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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.

• Analysis
• DOM
• information
• knowledge representation
• linguistics
• logic
• modeling
• ontology
• semantics

• College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

  Rebecca Green

• Extramural Programs, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, USA

  Carol A. Bean

• Natural Language and Information Retrieval Laboratory, Division of Information and Communication, College of Engineering, Chungnam National University, Taejon, Korea

  Sung Hyon Myaeng

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