Biblio::Thesaurus::ModRewrite(3pm)

NAME
Biblio::Thesaurus::ModRewrite - a module to manipulate ontologies

VERSION
Version 0.02

SYNOPSIS
  use Biblio::Thesaurus;
  use Biblio::Thesaurus::ModRewrite;

  my $code = "Lisbon 'city-of' Portugal => add (Lisbon 'city-of' Europe).";

  $thesaurus = thesaurusLoad($file);
  $obj = Biblio::Thesaurus::ModRewrite->new($thesaurus);

  $obj->process($code);

DESCRIPTION
This module implements a compiler to run programs written in a domain specific language that can be used to manipulate information in ontologies. This domain specific language is called OML and is described in the next section.

OML
OML is a domain specific language that can be used to describe operations that manipulate information in a ontology. Programs written in OML are a set of rules that are executed in order, each rule looks something like:

  pattern => action .

Which means that when the "pattern" is found the given "action" block is executed.

  Patterns
Patterns describe information in the ontology. A pattern can be used to represent terms, relations, relations between terms, or any combination of any of these.

  Actions
The action block is used to describe the operations that are going to be executed if a given pattern is found.

FUNCTIONS

  new
This function creates a new object and stores the source file for the thesaurus given as argument.

  process
This function processes source code written in OML. This and "new" should be the only functions you need to call to use this module.

  parseFile
This function parses the source code and builds a parsing tree. The parser is defined in the Biblio::Thesaurus::ModRewrite::Parser module.

  buildSemanticTree
This function calculates the solution node for every pattern in the parsing tree.

  calc_set
This function calculates the solution for a given pattern.

  _intersect
This function is used by "calc_set" and should not be called on it's own.

  _comum
This function is used by "calc_set" and should not be called on it's own.

  _union
This function is used by "calc_set" and should not be called on it's own.

  run_program
This function executes every action for each rule in an OML program.

  execute
This function is used to execute an action.

EXAMPLES
Look in the examples and bin directory for sample programs.

AUTHOR
Nuno Carvalho, "<smash@cpan.org>"

J.Joao Almeida, "<jj@di.uminho.pt>"

Alberto Simoes, "<albie@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt>"

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
Copyright 2008 Nuno Carvalho, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.