Domain-Independent ConceptsDomain-Specific Concepts

Slot Entity EventValue Cliché

Action StateIntangible-EntityTangible-Entity

ObjectSubstance … Place … Transfer …CreateMove

Phagocytose Pinocytose

Endocytose Absorb

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

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

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

Using the Component Library

Collide

Adhere

Slide

Encounter

Bind

Move

Halt

Release

Detach

Separate

Move

Copy

RepeatMatch

Bind

Connect

Encounter

subevents

Roles for Bind Action

Encounter Bind

Copy

Move

temporally-met-by

temporally-met-by, enabled-by

PolymeraseDNAPromoter

enabled-by

location destination object

part-of

KM Code for Bind Action

(a Bind with

(object ((the RNA-Polymerase)))

(destination ((the DNA)))

(location ((the Promoter)))

(temporally-met-by ((the Encounter)))

(enabled-by ((the Encounter)))

)

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

…Non-Taxonomic Composition…

Reflexive-Action

Action

Non-Reflexive-Action

Bathe

Enter

Refrain Wash

Groom …ObstructMove

Go-To

Groom …ObstructMove

Move-To

Move-Into

Restrain

…Non-Taxonomic Composition…Action

Enter

Wash

Reflexive-Action

Bathe

Groom …

Refrain

Obstruct

Move-To

Move

Go-To Move-Into

Restrain

…Non-Taxonomic CompositionAction

Enter

Wash

Bathe

Groom …

Refrain

ObstructMove

Move-To

Go-To Move-Into

Restrain

Cliché

Part-Ascension ReflexiveReciprocal …

Kiss

Collide

“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