LogosLink User's Manual · LogosLink version 2.0.0

Linked Context Elements

In LogosLink, contexts often work as a lightweight infrastructure on which to base other kinds of models, such as ontologies, argumentation models and agency models, as well as corpora. When you carry out ontology, argumentation and agency analysis on top of a well-known context, you obtain several benefits, such as being able to connect analyses together or providing extra information to analytics to produce more complete results and visualisations.

Details

Some elements in ontologies, argumentation models, agency models and corpora can be linked to elements in an embedded context. For example, you can link a proposition in an argumentation model to a position in the embedded context in order to indicate that this proposition supports or opposes the position.

Allowed linkage relationships

Different elements allow for different linkages, as shown in the next sub-sections.

Ontologies

In an ontology, an entity (whether a category or an atom) can be linked to:

A theme, indicating that the entity represents the theme.
One or more positions, indicating that the entity supports or opposes each position.
One or more agents, indicating that the entity represents these agents.

Argumentation models

In an argumentation model, a speaker can be linked to:

One or more agents, indicating that the speaker is considered to be a member or representative of these agents.

Similarly, a proposition can be linked to:

A theme, indicating that the proposition is about the theme.
One or more positions, indicating that the proposition supports or opposes each position.

Agency models

In an agency model, a speaker can be linked to:

One or more agents, indicating that the speaker is considered to be a member or representative of these agents.

Similarly, a response part can be linked to:

One or more positions, indicating that the response part supports or opposes each position.

Corpora

In a corpus, a topic can be linked to:

A theme, indicating that the topic represents the theme.

Similarly, an author can be linked to:

One or more agents, indicating that the author is considered to be a member or representative of these agents.

Linking to positions

Any element that links to positions does it via adherences. An adherence captures whether the element supports or opposes the position, and to what degree.

For example, a particular proposition in an argumentation model could be linked to a position in the embedded context to show that this proposition moderately supports the position, or strongly opposes it, among other possibilities.