NEWS: A "Compound Terms Composition Algebra" just appeared
Yannis Tzitzikas <[email protected]>
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Hi all, I am very glad that I found this discussion group as faceted classification is one of my favorite research interests. The last two years, I have tried to formalize and extend the basic ideas around faceted taxonomies. The outcome of this effort is: (a) a quite clear and understandable formal framework that describes: taxonomies, faceted taxonomies, compound terms and compound taxonomies, and (b) an algebra (I call it, Compound Terms Composition Algebra) that allows specifying the valid (meaningfull) compound terms over a faceted taxonomy in a systematic and flexible manner. This algebra is accompanied by an efficient (polynomial time) inference mechanism and a method for deriving navigational graphs dynamically. I and my colleagues, believe that this algebra can be used in order to construct very very large taxonomies with low effort. You can read more in the following article:: Yannis Tzitzikas, Anastasia Analyti, Nicolas Spyratos and Panos Constantopoulos, ΒAn Algebra for Specifying Compound Terms for Faceted TaxonomiesΒ, Proceedings of the 13th European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases, Kitakyushu, Japan, June 2003 The full paper is available through my web page: http://www.csi.forth.gr/~tzitzik/publications.htm I hope you find it interesting, and I am waiting for your comments. Ciao, Yannis -- --------------------------------------------------------- Yannis Tzitzikas Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie della Informazione [ ISTI ] Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche [ CNR ] Via G. Moruzzi, 1 - 56127 Pisa - Italy Tel: +39 050 3152139 Fax: +39 050 3153464 Web page: www.csi.forth.gr/~tzitzik E-Mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Wireless Video Surveillance http://us.click.yahoo.com/jWIEhC/90OGAA/ySSFAA/0bmwlB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ---------- Thanks for playing. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/