Domain-Independent Concepts

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Domain-Independent Concepts
Slot
Entity
Event
Value
Cliché
Transfer

Create
Move

• Top-down
• describe clusters of actions common to all
  domains (says us)
• Bottom-up
• prime the pump
• test the hypotheses
• guide construction of the upper levels

Phagocytose
Pinocytose
Domain-Specific Concepts
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• Presentation continues with
• brief description of the slot language used in
  all components
• view of the current component library browser
• sample of specifications/KM code

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RNA Transcription Scenario

• Purpose to exercise our Component Library
• Selected a two-paragraph description of RNA
  Transcription from our biology textbook
• Searched our Component Library (and Slot
  Dictionary) for generic actions and roles that a
  SME could use to describe this scenario
• Found new action types to add to Library,
  refinements to Slot Dictionary,
  representation issues to work on

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Using the Component Library
Collide
Adhere
Slide
Encounter
Move
Bind
Separate
subevents
Move
Copy
Match
Halt
Repeat
Bind
Release
Encounter
Connect
Detach
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Roles for Bind Action
temporally-met-by
Encounter
Bind
Move
temporally-met-by, enabled-by
enabled-by
Copy
location
destination
object
Polymerase
DNA
Promoter
part-of
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KM Code for Bind Action
(a Bind with (object ((the RNA-Polymerase))) (de
stination ((the DNA))) (location ((the
Promoter))) (temporally-met-by ((the
Encounter))) (enabled-by ((the Encounter))) )
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An Example of Non-Taxonomic Composition

• Enter cause oneself to move into an enclosure
• Bathe wash oneself
• Refrain(-from) restrain oneself (from doing
  something)
• Enterisa Move-Intoagent objectobject
  agent
• Batheisa Washagent objectobject agent
• Refrainisa Restrainagent objectobject
  agent

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Non-Taxonomic Composition
Action
Reflexive-Action
Non-Reflexive-Action
Bathe
Refrain
Wash
Restrain
Enter
Move-Into
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Non-Taxonomic Composition
Action
Reflexive-Action
Groom

Wash
Move-To
Restrain
Bathe
Enter
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Non-Taxonomic Composition
Action
Cliché
Groom

Obstruct
Move
Part-Ascension
Reflexive
Reciprocal

Wash
Move-To
Restrain
Bathe
Refrain
Go-To
Move-Into
Enter
Collide
Kiss
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Clichés

• The difference between many concepts is often a
  small number of axioms and/or slots
• These differences are a pattern repeating
  throughout the taxonomy
• The patterns are somehow less semantically
  complete than other concepts, yet they are not
  semantically incoherent