Representing roles and purpose
Representing roles and purpose
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代表角色和目的
DOI：
10.1145/500737.500747
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发表时间：
2001
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Peter Clark
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文献类型：
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作者：
James Fan;Ken Barker;B. Porter;Peter Clark
本体设计者经常区分实体（存在的事物）和事件（发生的事物）。这种划分如何承认角色（存在的事物，但仅在发生的事物的背景下）并不明显。例如，Person可能被认为是实体，而Employee是角色。一个人仍然是一个独立于他所参与的事件的人。只有通过参加就业活动才能成为员工。如何表示角色的问题并不新鲜，但在解决方案上几乎没有共识。在本文中，我们提出了一个本体，找到一个地方的角色，以及一个表示，允许角色相关的实体和事件，以表达目的论的概念的目的。
Ontology designers often distinguish Entities (things that are) from Events (things that happen). It is not obvious how this division admits Roles (things that are, but only in the context of things that happen). For example, Person might be considered an Entity, while Employee is a Role. A Person remains a Person independent of the Events in which he participates. Someone is an Employee only by virtue of participating in an Employment Event. The problem of how to represent Roles is not new, but there is little consensus on a solution. In this paper, we present an ontology that finds a place for Roles as well as a representation that allows Roles to be related to Entities and Events to express the teleological notion of purpose.