kehysmallien

Kehysmallien refers to a class of knowledge representation structures used to model information around schematic structures called frames. In Finnish literature, kehysmallien denotes the set of such frame models and their organization of concepts, roles, and relationships.

Origin and concept: Frame semantics, developed by Charles J. Fillmore in the 1970s and beyond, defines frames as data structures with a core concept and a set of slots that specify typical properties or relationships. Kehysmallien are the Finnish instantiation of this idea, used to organize lexical and conceptual knowledge in linguistics, artificial intelligence, and information systems.

Structure: Each kehysmalli defines slots and constraints; slots can be mandatory or optional and may carry default values. Frames can be interrelated through inheritance or specialization, forming a network or hierarchy. Fillers supplied for a frame activate particular values and can vary across contexts, allowing flexible representation of knowledge about similar concepts.

Applications: In natural language processing, kehysmallien help map words to conceptual roles and relations. In knowledge representation and information retrieval, they support structured descriptions of entities and events. In education and cognitive science, kehysmallien model how people organize and retrieve information about familiar situations such as social events, activities, and objects.

Example: A kehysmalli for the concept restaurant might include slots such as location, staff, menu, and payment; events like order, serve, and pay would evoke fillers such as customer, waiter, dish, and bill, illustrating how a single frame accommodates multiple related scenarios.

See also: Frame semantics; slot–filler representation; scripts.