Ontology Aspects in Relation Extraction (8)

Five selected relations

"Conventional" (results confirm previous work):

• + inclure (Slot: La définition); comparable to the hyponymy relation;
• + ressembler à (Slot: La définition); comparable to a relation of co-hyponymy, near synonymy or to a literal-figurative relation;

Less studied; subconcepts of PERSON IN A ROLE and ARTEFACT considered separately:

• + avoir (Slot: Les caractéristiques extérieures), relating an entity to one of its external characteristics;
• + se trouver, à (Slot: Le lieu et la répartition), relating an entity to its place;
• + avoir (Slot: L'importance pour l'homme), relating an entity to its legal, social, or economic possession, or to characteristics (e.g. of ARTEFACTS) which have influence on these possessions of humans who deal with them.

Workshop Ontologies and Information Extraction
EUROLAN Summer School, Bucharest, 4 August 2003. © Birte Lönneker