Relation Mention

A Relation Mention is a mention (within a linguistic item) with two or more concept mentions that are in a semantic relation.

• AKA: Relationship Mention, Semantic Relation Mention.
• Context:
  • It can be Identified by a Relation Mention Identification System (that implements a Relation Mention Identification Algorithm.
  • It can be Classified by a Relation Mention Classification System (that implements a Relation Mention Classification Algorithm.
  • It can be Recognized by a Relation Mention Recognition System (that implements a Relation Mention Recognition Algorithm.
  • It can range from:
    • being a Simple Relation Mention.
    • to being a Complex Relation Mention.
  • It can range from:
    • being a Domain Independent Relation Mention (of a Domain Independent Relation)
    • to being a Domain Specific Relation Mention (of a Domain Specific Relation).
  • It can be:
    • a Hypothesized Relation Mention (of a Hypothesized Relation)
    • a Confirmed Relation Mention (of a Confirmed Relation, such as an Experimentally Validated Mention required in PPLRE Project).
  • It (like any mention) can be expressed in:
    • an Unstructured.
    • a Semi-Structured.
    • a Structured Artifact.
• Example(s):
  • Domain Independent Relation Mention.
    • a Subsumption Relation Mention, such as:
      • "A cat is a mammal” contains the relation IsA(cat, mammal).
    • a Property Relation Mention, such as:
      • “The cat is black” contains the relation PropertyOf(cat,black).
    • a Meronymy Relation Mention, such as:
      • “John's black cat has long whiskers” contains the relations HasA(John,cat), PartOf(cat,whikers), PropertyOf(cat,black).
      • “John has a cat” contains the relation HasA(John,cat)
      • “This cat has long whiskers” contains the relation PartOf(cat,whikers)
  • Domain Specific Relation Mention.
    • an Organism Protein Mention, such as:
      • "XyaA is one of E. coli’s proteins. It is found in the periplasmic space.” contains the relation SubcellularLocalization(E. coli, XyaA, periplasmic space). (a mention of a Complex Domain Specific Relation)
    • an Organization Location Mention, such as:
      • "Redmond-based Microsoft... contains the relation OrganizationHeadquarter(Microsoft, Redmond)
    • a Person Organization Mention, such as:
      • “Micheal works at IBM.”.
    • a Product Organization Mention, such as:
      • “My Sony Ericsson w810i mobile phone was great.”.
    • a Protein Localization Relation Mention.
      • "A protein ([PROTEIN1 NosA] ) in the [LOCATION outer membrane] of [ORGANISM Pseudomonas stutzeri] that is required for copper to be inserted into [PROTEIN2 N2O reductase] has been extracted and purified to homogeneity." (PPLRE Corpus 4151.a.0).
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • A Concept Mention.
• See: Syntactic Relation, Discourse-level Analysis.

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