Monday, January 26, 2009

Refining RTs

Very often the RT terms ARE related, but it becomes difficult to specify HOW EXACTLY they are related. Following is one example.


queen bees
BT honey bees
RT queenlessness
RT Requeening
How should these RTs be refined? queenlessness isPropertyOf queenbees? Or something better? and
honey bees `isObjectOfActivity' requeening?
Background:
There were about 2,090 ref. for `Queenlessness' in google search. It seemed to be an important concept and hence was made a descriptor. It is placed under state and the USE term, 'queen bees' is made an RT.
'Queenrightness' is the presence of queen bee and didn’t seem to be an important descriptor. (Only when something goes wrong, it becomes important!) Therefore Queenrightness is left as a non-descriptor, but is made a non-descriptor for 'queenlessness' instead of for `queenbees' and refined as `antonymOf’.

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