process

process: things that happen

Scope

Anything that has temporal parts / that happens that is not part of time (time), regardless of whether past, present, future, hypothetical, counterfactual, etc. In addition to any single process as whole, applies also to arbitrary parts and aggregates of processes as well as to processual universals.

(contrast process_BFO: A processual entity that is a maximally connected spatiotemporal whole and has bona fide beginnings and endings corresponding to real discontinuities.)

Syntactic constraints

Verbal and derived (e.g. nominalized) expressions. Spans normally exclude determiners, prepositions etc. as per the standard guidelines for nominals (Nominal mention annotation) but include prepositions and particles for phrasal verbs (e.g. deal with).

Examples

use

The methods uses semantic similarity T1 PLAN 4 11 methods T2 PROCESS 12 16 uses T3 DATA_ITEM 17 36 semantic similarity
move

by moving to a graph perspective T1 PROCESS 3 9 moving T2 PLAN 15 32 graph perspective
implement

We implemented a type inference algorithm T1 PROCESS 3 14 implemented T2 PLAN 16 41 type inference algorithm
evaluate

Relevance features evaluate a sentence T1 PLAN 0 18 Relevance features T2 PROCESS 19 27 evaluate T3 DATA_ITEM 29 38 sentence
evaluation

implementation and evaluation of a search and rescue system T1 PROCESS 0 14 implementation T2 PROCESS 18 29 evaluation T3 PLAN 35 59 search and rescue system
predict

a discriminative model for predicting the likelifood of a response T1 PLAN 2 22 discriminative model T2 PROCESS 26 37 predicting T3 DATA_ITEM 41 52 likelifood T4 DATA_ITEM 57 66 response
develop

We develop a graphical representation T1 PROCESS 3 10 develop T2 PLAN 12 37 graphical representation
adapt:

Adapting Asynchronous Messaging Middleware to ad-hoc Networking T1 PROCESS 0 8 Adapting T2 PLAN 9 42 Asynchronous Messaging Middleware T3 PLAN_OR_PROCESS 46 63 ad-hoc Networking

References

The semantic scope of process annotation matches that of processual entity_BFO: “An occurrent that exists in time by occurring or happening, has temporal parts and always involves and depends on some entity. Examples: the life of an organism, the process of meiosis, the course of a disease, the flight of a bird” [1] (see Ontological basis: Top-level organization). Contrast plan, time, consider plan-or-process for ambiguous cases.