Links
10 pages filed under Inference › links. A term is a word of the business with its definition, its aliases and the words it relates to.
| Term | aliases | First line | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accompanying word | companion word, accompanying words | A word shown on a keyword page because it is named in the same paragraphs as the expression: an entity of the dictionary or another keyword page, counted once per paragraph the two share, the way the co-occurrence neighbourhood counts its neighbours. The page shows the twelve most frequent, each sized from one to five by the rank of its count among them and followed by that count in plain text, so that size is never the only cue. An accompanying word is a lead, not a relation: nothing on the page asserts that the two belong together. | 26 |
| Co-occurrence | cooccurrence, shared paragraph | Two entities named in the same paragraph, counted once per paragraph however many times each is mentioned there. Every pair gives one undirected related link at the cooccurrence confidence of 0.40, emitted once from the lower identifier, with the number of shared paragraphs as the count of its single provenance; the relation typing may refine related from the type pair. Co-occurrence is accumulated per node in a bounded neighbourhood of fifty neighbours, never as a full matrix, and feeds the accompanying words of a keyword page. | 57 |
| Confidence | confidence score, score | A value between 0 and 1 that expresses how reliable the method that produced a link is. A written link scores 1.00, a frontmatter reference 0.90, a mention in a mapped section 0.70, an occurrence 0.60 and more, a co-occurrence 0.40. When several methods agree, their confidences combine. The first version stores the score, uses it to order mentions, and does not show it. | 105 |
| Frontmatter reference | frontmatter ref, declared reference | A value of a reference-typed attribute of the frontmatter, reads, roles, rules, consumers, affects, broader among others, that names another note by its identifier, by its path relative to the source root, or by its exact title. The reference produces a link at confidence 0.90 whose relation the attribute declares, never overturned by inference. A value that matches nothing, or several notes by title, yields W-REF-UNRESOLVED; one that reaches a note of a type the relation does not allow yields E-META-REL. | 66 |
| Link | typed link, model link | A typed relation between two entities, carrying a confidence and at least one provenance. A link is produced by a written markdown link, a frontmatter reference, a mention in a mapped section, an occurrence or a co-occurrence. | 190 |
| Link | written link, explicit link | A markdown link written by an author in a note, such as [publication threshold](../rules/publication-threshold.rule.md). It is the strongest evidence the tool knows: a written link produces a typed link at confidence 1.00, above anything inferred. On the entity page it is rendered as a plain underlined link to the page of its target, which tells it apart from a recognised word. | 190 |
| Neighbourhood | displayed neighbourhood, one-hop neighbours | The entities one link away from an entity, as the page shows them: six at most, each with its title, its type, the nature of the link and the confidence of the strongest link between the two. The order is type-driven: the profile declares, for each type, which neighbour types come first (operations on an API, accessed objects on a screen, what it applies to on a rule); every neighbour carries the rank of its type, unlisted types and keyword pages come last, confidence decides within a group, and the list is cut after this ordering. A type without a declaration lists its neighbours by decreasing confidence. The neighbourhood is computed at build and written to the model, never in the browser, and the page renders it twice from the same data: as a map, the entity at the centre and the neighbours on a ring in the order received, each named in plain text beside its node, a typed entity a circle holding the glyph of its type, a keyword page a dashed square at the end of a dashed edge, no label overlapping another; and as the list that is its textual equivalent, a separator marking each change of rank. When the model holds more neighbours than the map may show, the map gives way to a pointer to the mentions panel and the list stays. Not to be confused with the bounded neighbourhood of co-occurrence, which keeps the fifty best co-occurring entities per node and feeds the links. | 75 |
| Provenance | evidence | The evidence behind a link: the method, the file, the line, the section, the words as written and the context around them. Every link keeps every provenance it received; none is discarded. Provenance is what lets a reader check why the tool claims two entities are related. | 64 |
| Relation | relation type, relation name | The name a link carries, taken from the profile: accesses, constrains, serves, related. Each relation lists the pairs of types it may join and a label for each direction, so that a screen reads "accesses" an object and the object reads "is accessed by" the screen. A relation is decided on four rungs, the first that applies winning: a mapped section, a typed frontmatter attribute, a type pair that admits a single relation, then related, the fallback capped at 0.60 and reported as ambiguous when a written link or a located mention carries it, never when co-occurrence alone does. A relation the profile does not allow between two types never enters the model. | 91 |
| Source | origin of a link | The file, line and method from which a link was produced: one element of a link's provenance. A link can have several sources when several methods found it. | 176 |
10 links of 10 — pagination by twenty. The Links column counts the related pages, which brings the most central links of the journey to the top.