Re: NEWS: A "Compound Terms Composition Algebra" just appeared

Dear Bob, 

   you can download the paper that describes the algebra in its 
latest form, also from http://www.poorbuthappy.com/ease/ (see 18th of 
June).

Ciao,
Yannis 

--- In [email protected], Bob Parks <bobp@l...> 
wrote:
> Dear Yannis,
> I went to your web site, and wasn't able to download any of your 
> papers ("file not found" error).  It looks like interesting 
material.
> Thanks,
> Bob Parks
> 
> >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,
> >?An Algebra  for Specifying Compound Terms for  Faceted 
Taxonomies?,
> >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
> >
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