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We face the issue of formally modeling roles in the semantic representation of events: we propose a distinction between thematic roles and social roles, and we show that they have important ontological differences, suggesting distinct formal representations. We apply our approach in the context of the Harlock’900 project, including the definition of thematic roles as binary properties in the HERO ontology.
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“Externality” is actually a complex notion that, in many practical cases, can be conveniently approximated by stating that y is external to x iff x is not part of y and y is not part of x.
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Goy, A., Magro, D., Rovera, M. (2017). An Ontological Perspective on Thematic Roles. In: Ciancarini, P., et al. Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. EKAW 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10180. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58694-6_14
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