MattWest wrote:
> Dear John,
>
> I don't follow this.
>
>> > Interesting point: In our work at VivoMind, we have found that
>> > Roget's _Thesaurus_ is more useful than WordNet for representing
>> > emotional terms and value judgments. Since we use a partial ordering
>> > rather than a tree, we can treat the Roget classifications as the
>> > equivalent of WordNet synsets in a large partial ordering.
>
> I thought a tree structure was a partial ordering. What do you see as
> the difference between a tree and a partial ordering? (01)
Every tree (structure) is a partial ordering, but not every partial
ordering is a tree. What John meant is that in his model, the partial
orderings are not restricted to tree structures -- they can be
generalized lattices with multiple roots. (02)
-Ed (03)
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