A theoretical investigation about the notion of parts and wholes

mereological and meronymic relations

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https://doi.org/10.36311/1981-1640.2014.v8n1e2.06.p102

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classificação de documentos de arquivo, análise funcional, recuperação de documentos e informações, vínculo arquivístico

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Within the realm of Information Science, information retrieval is a seminal issue. Knowledge organization systems are instruments that organize knowledge by connecting concepts through semantic relations for purposes of information retrieval. One of the most important of these semantic relations is the so-called part-whole relation. In this paper, we revisit some peculiarities of part-whole relations that are often overlooked by the Information Science community. In order to do this, we provide a theoretical investigation of two perspectives used to explain the notion of parts and wholes: a formal perspective, which is based on the philosophical study usually called mereology; a non-formal perspective, which is based on the linguistic study about a relation called meronym. We discuss the relationship between these perspectives through the issue of transitivity, which is an important property of part-whole relations for information retrieval. We find that these perspectives, although distinguished, are somehow complementary. The results of our analysis suggest that the choice for either a formal or a non-formal perspective could be based on a pragmatic criterion in the scope of development of knowledge organization systems. We conclude by offering some considerations correlating two main sorts of these systems, namely ontologies and thesauri.

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Mauricio Barcellos Almeida

O Laboratório Editorial foi instituído com o objetivo de criar condições e oportunidades para a difusão de pesquisas e tornar públicos os resultados dos trabalhos do corpo docente da FFC. Constitui-se num órgão adjunto à Diretoria da FFC e vinculado à SAEPE, com o apoio da Seção Gráfica, da Diretoria, da Biblioteca, e das Seções de Finanças, Compras e Técnica Acadêmica. A função do Laboratório Editorial é a de assessorar, planejar, realizar e distribuir livros, periódicos e outras publicações elaboradas na FFC.

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2014-12-05

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Almeida, M. B., e R. A. Baracho. “A Theoretical Investigation about the Notion of Parts and Wholes: Mereological and Meronymic Relations”. Brazilian Journal of Information Science: Research Trends, vol. 8, nº 1/2, dezembro de 2014, doi:10.36311/1981-1640.2014.v8n1e2.06.p102.

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