Introduction to ROSS: A New Representational Scheme

TL;DR

ROSS is a novel knowledge representation scheme focusing on physical structure, introducing a language called 'Star' and an 'instance model' for natural language meaning, with a philosophical foundation.

Contribution

The paper presents ROSS, a new representational scheme with a dedicated language and formal models for understanding natural language and physical structures.

Findings

Introduces the ROSS representational scheme and 'Star' language.

Provides a formal 'instance model' for natural language meaning.

Lays out the philosophical background and rationale for ROSS.

Abstract

ROSS ("Representation, Ontology, Structure, Star") is introduced as a new method for knowledge representation that emphasizes representational constructs for physical structure. The ROSS representational scheme includes a language called "Star" for the specification of ontology classes. The ROSS method also includes a formal scheme called the "instance model". Instance models are used in the area of natural language meaning representation to represent situations. This paper provides both the rationale and the philosophical background for the ROSS method.