TRIBAL ABSTRACTION NETWORK

摘要

This invention relates to Tribal Abstraction Networks (TAN), a new type of Abstraction Network designed for hierarchies that do not have attribute relationships, assuming only the existence of multiple parents. A Tribal Association network can summarize the content and structure of terminology hierarchies and support their Quality Assurance (QA) by identifying concepts with a higher likelihood of incorrect or missing IS-A relationships.

主权项

1. A tribal abstraction network which is comprised of a summarization of a terminology with an ISA (subclass) hierarchy without lateral relationships
wherein the children of the hierarchy's root are named patriarchs; a subhierarchy consisting of a patriarch and all its descents is named a tribe; every concept in the hierarchy belongs to at least one tribe; and all concepts belonging to a common set of tribes are grouped together into a set called a band.