User Defined Relationships

CodeSells Thesaurus Builder has a feature to define additional relationships between the terms. You can use this feature to make your thesaurus more similar to an ontology.

Users can add either associative or hierarchical relations to their thesaurus databases. Associative user defined relations are overwritten on the RTs, and hierarchical user defined relations are overwritten on the BTs and NTs.

The 'User Defined Relationships' page of the 'Options' window contains the following items:

Relations

All user defined relationships of the current thesaurus are listed in the Relation panel. To add to, edit or remove from this list, simply click on the 'Add', 'Edit' or 'Remove' buttons.

When you click on 'Remove' button, the selected user defined relationship will be logically deleted and will be permanently deleted when you save your thesaurus database.

NB: Once a new thesaurus is created, the most common ontological relationships will be added here as default user defined relationships. The default user defined relationships are listed below:

Type of Relationship	Relationship Description	Relationship Reciprocal Description
Hierarchical	Contains substance	Substance contained in
Hierarchical	Has component	Component of
Hierarchical	Has ingredient	Ingredient of
Hierarchical	Has member	Member of
Hierarchical	Has phase	Phase of
Hierarchical	Has property	Property of
Hierarchical	Includes specific	Is a
Hierarchical	Inherits to	Inherits from
Hierarchical	Ingests	Ingested by
Hierarchical	Process for	Uses process
Hierarchical	Spatially includes	Spatially included in
Hierarchical	Used to make	Made from
Associative	Beneficial for	Benefits from
Associative	Causes	Caused by
Associative	Grows in	Environment for growing
Associative	Harmful for	Harmed by
Associative	Has component	Component of
Associative	Has member	Member of
Associative	Has pest	Afflicts
Associative	Has property	Property of
Associative	Has symptom	Indicates
Associative	Includes subprocess	Subprocess of
Associative	Instrument for	Perform by instrument
Associative	Process for	Uses process
Associative	Similar to	Similar to
Associative	Treatment for	Treated with
Associative	Yields portion	Portion of