LogosLink User's Manual · LogosLink version 2.0.0

Agency Model

An agency model is a dataset containing a conceptual representation of the beliefs, desires and intentions of the speakers in the form of responses to pre-defined questions.

Agency models are expressed in terms of IAT/ML, and consist of a collection of elements plus relationships between them.

Details

An agency model describes responses to pre-defined questions. Each response addresses a question that is part of the embedded question set.

An agency model may contain an embedded context, ontology and argumentation model. Also, an agency model always contains an embedded question set.

Types of agency models

Agency models can be:

Independent. That is, you can create and work with an agency model stored in a file if you want to analyse a single text. Agency model files have a .lly extension.
Dependent:
- Stand-alone. This is the case of an agency model for a document in a corpus. These agency models are stored as individual files in the corpus directory. Do not rename or move these files, as the corpus keeps references to them.

Working with agency models

You work with agency models depending on their type.

Independent

You can create an independent agency model by opening the backstage and clicking New, Agency Model.

You can open an existing independent agency model by opening the backstage and clicking Open.

You can save an independent agency model by clicking the Save button on the Home ribbon tab, or via the Save and Save As commands in the backstage.

Of corpus documents

You can create an agency model for a corpus document by right-clicking the document and selecting Create Agency Model... in the context menu. Make sure that the corpus is open for read/write.

To open the agency model embedded in a document, right-click the document and select Edit Agency Model in the context menu.

You can save the agency model by clicking the Save button on the Home ribbon tab, or via the Save and Save As commands in the backstage.