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Sowa's updated roles
Sowa's (1999) Knowledge Representation text
19 thematic roles
- See http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~tomohara/thematic-roles/sowa-thematic-roles.html
Decompositional approach
- Better hierarchical structuring
- Four broad categories
- intiator, resource, goal, essence
- based on Aristotle's four causes (aitia)
- Six categories for verbs
- action, process, transfer, spatial, temporal, ambient