Re: [ontolog-forum] Use of SUMO and "patient" of a Process

[MDaconta@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 7/12/2003 11:04:39 AM US Mountain Standard Time, adampease@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> Names are always a problem, since different people have different 
> intuitions about the right name for a concept.  Linguistics will like this 
> name since it accords with common computational linguistic 
> terminology.  For others, I agree that it might initially be confusing.


Interesting.  I had not heard that term in computational linguistics.
Any good references in that area you like?


> >2. the range of the property is "Entity" which includes both Physical and
> >Abstract things.  Since the Process is a subclass of Physical, the targets
> >of the Process should probably have a range of "Object" (subclass of 
> >Physical).
>
> A patient of an event could be information, which isn't physical, even 
> though the event itself is situated in space and time, due to its 
> relationship to an Agent.


Ok, I'll buy that.  Though Entity includes everything which is too broad.
Some restraints on the target of a process are appropriate.

Back to work...

 - Mike
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Michael C. Daconta
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