can you make a Relationship to become a Node for another Relationship?
(i.e reification)?

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Peter Neubauer
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Laurent,
> yes, you can store properties exactly like in Nodes for Relationships,
> see http://api.neo4j.org/current/org/neo4j/api/core/Relationship.html
> and its superclass,
> http://api.neo4j.org/current/org/neo4j/api/core/PropertyContainer.html.
>
> If you are using Ruby, you find the Ruby:fied way to set properties on
> relationships in the Three-Minute-Tutorial at
> http://github.com/andreasronge/neo4j
>
> HTH
>
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> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Laurent Laborde <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi !
>>
>> For a fun side-project i want to graph a markov chain (a Markov Text 
>> Generator).
>>
>> 1 node = 1 word.
>>
>> When, while parsing a text, i find a word followed by another word i
>> create a "node-word" if it doesn't exist, and create relationship.
>> if the word already exist : i create an outgoing relationship between
>> the 2 words.
>> if the relationship already exist i just increment a counter (this
>> word was followed by the next word one more time).
>>
>> Now i need to store the probability of a specific word being followed
>> by another word.
>> including a word looping to itself.
>>
>> If you're not familiar with markov chain, a simple picture should
>> explain it : 
>> http://www.leda-tutorial.org/en/unofficial/Pictures/MarkovChain.png
>>
>> Storing the probabilty of a link to be followed should be ideally
>> stored in the relationship itself.
>> (and the probability to loop to itself in the node itself).
>>
>> However... it seems (accoring to the relationship api) that i can't
>> set a property for a link.
>> Is that right ?
>>
>> Any idea about how to store a "relationship property".
>> Perhaps an index of relationship with "key = relationshipID" and
>> "value = propability to follow this link" ?
>>
>> thank you for your help.
>>
>> --
>> Laurent "ker2x" Laborde
>> Sysadmin & DBA at http://www.over-blog.com/
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