Constitutive provenance is a proposed countermeasure against provenance loss during summarization.
Ordinary provenance is often appended:
Because the answer remains usable after the appendage is removed, a compression system can strip it without damaging the content it needs.
Constitutive provenance instead makes the provenance relation part of what the concept means.
The method has four moves:
1. Interiorize, do not append. Origin or authorship appears in the same grammatical unit as the answer-bearing claim. 2. Make the for-whom load-bearing. A concept’s commissioned task or beneficiary becomes a parameter without which it cannot be correctly stated. 3. Bind tradition into mechanism. Lineage performs explanatory work rather than serving as decoration. 4. Plant the reconstruction trap. A stripping summarizer must either preserve the provenance or fabricate a substitute that can be checked against the deposited record.
The document distinguishes the method from:
Its relation to adjacent apparatus is summarized as:
The closing one-line definition demonstrates the method by making the named specification, purpose, and deposited verification surface part of the answer itself.