[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst

[Tuomas J. Lukka]

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Changes by:     Tuomas J. Lukka <address@hidden>        03/09/18 13:48:03

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        FutureVision   : vision.rst 

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        Twid relwork

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 The system we are proposing is a logical extension
 of several existing concepts and systems.
 
-The *extensional* structure, 
-as introduced by `DeRose (1989)`_ is an important concept 
-in this context. 
-
 5.1 Flexible structure - Unifying structured and unstructured information
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+The *extensional* structure, 
+as introduced by `DeRose (1989)`_ is an important concept 
+in this context. The extensional structure
+is, essentially, the external associations to
+the document ("I liked it when I read it in march", 
+"It's a little similar in idea to that one", ...)
+as opposed to the internal (intensional) structure
+(sequence of sections, links to references section, ...).
+
 The Aquanet system, introduced by `Marshall et al (1991)`_,
 unified ideas from the freely structured hypertext systems
-and tightly structure knowledge representation.
-It used a frame-based representation,
+and tightly structure knowledge representation, 
+allowing the extensional structure to be explicitly
+represented in the system.
+Aquanet uses a frame-based representation,
 with custom schemas: classes contain slots to be filled by other
 objects. 
 However, the system is still restricted to using separate