A KM Implementation of a Compositional Approach
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Abstract:
This Working Note has two distinct goals. First, it presents an example KM representation showing how a detailed script can be constructed by combining more general scripts. In particular, it illustrates how interactions between those general scripts, as well as between each general script and the target detailed script, can be specified. The significance of this note is that it presents these ideas at the implementation level, missing from earlier expositions (by us and others) of composition. Second, as an independent goal, it shows the representation expressed both using KM classes, and KM prototypes, to provide a side-by-side comparison of these di#erent representational styles using the KM language. In fact, these two KBs are extremely similar; our point is thus not to suggest a major change in how knowledge is expressed, but to suggest that with relatively trivial tweaks in that expression (changing classes to prototypes), there may be significant advantages for inter-language portability, graphical display, and dissemination of our component library, in a way analogous to WordNet's success. 1
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| 2 | Working note 6: Constructing scripts from components. (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/pclark/working notes – Clark, Porter - 1995 |
| 2 | Working note 18: Constructing scripts compositionally: A microbiology example. (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/pclark/working notes – Clark, Porter - 2000 |
