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Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge: An Overview

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Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge

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Relationships are specified by simultaneously identifying a semantic relationship and the set of participants involved in it, pairing each participant with its role in the relationship. Properties pertaining to the participant set and the nature of the relationship are explored. Relationships in the organization of knowledge are surveyed, encompassing relationships between units of recorded knowledge based on descriptions of those units; intratextual and intertextual relationships, including relationships based on text structure, citation relationships, and hypertext links; subject relationships in thesauri and other classificatory structures, including relationships for literature-based knowledge discovery; and relevance relationships.

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    Rebecca Green

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    Rebecca Green

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Green, R. (2001). Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge: An Overview. In: Bean, C.A., Green, R. (eds) Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge. Information Science and Knowledge Management, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9696-1_1

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