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

[MDaconta@xxxxxxx]

Thanks Pat,

I have not done any work in NLP (so this is new).  But I will check
out the resource your mention.  You can see how I handled it so far
in the V0.1 protege ontology.

Thanks for the feedback,

 - Mike

In a message dated 7/12/2003 1:46:40 PM US Mountain Standard Time, pcassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

>  -- "patient" is common in NLP usage as one of the arguments
> of transitive verbs (usually the "object" in an active-mood
> sentence) -- one reference:
>   http://oak.colorado.edu/~spradhan/publications/cuaq.pdf
>
> They list the "semantic roles"  at one point:
>
> "However, most of these semantic units are quite specific in what they
> label. We identify a small set of thematic roles ­ viz., agent,
> patient, manner, degree, cause, result, location, temporal, force,
> goal, path, percept, proposition, source, state, and topic, in the
> candidate answer sentences, using a statistical classifier [5]. "
>
>
>
>
> >>>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.
> >
>
>   Right.  The specific constraints will be identified in the
> representations of specific types of process (or event).
> The patient of "read" (in the usual sense) will be, for
> example, a "Text-Physical", as in reading the creation date
> on an Invoice.  Other senses of the same word (i.e. other
> distinct though related identifiable processes)
> would have different patients (e.g. to read the data off an
> instrument).



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