Variation and Translation Modules

Hi,

thank you for yesterday's interesting Telco.

To Elena and Jorge: Sorry for coming back to your pdf now. Following yesterday's discussion I think the proposal is really cool.

There are some open questions and I wonder whether you can help in this:

- The distinction between "variation" and "translation" remains a bit vague to me. From the examples provided, I guess you use "variation" in terms of lexical and semantic changes within the same language, and not with reference to other changes (intralingual- or interlingual variation). Is it correct?

- The way you suggest to go through lexical and terminological variants is extremely interesting, yet as mentioned complex. We often reiterated the concept of "simplistic elegance" of the model. How to decide which variants are the ones worth to be included?

- The third and last questions catches up with the latter. "Context" in the Translation Module is still to be discussed. Users would be grateful I think if we could introduce at least a context for reference, but again we should be able to choose one among many, and possibly be able to motivate the choice.

It might all depend on the final use and the final users of the SKOS model, on whether they are interested in a multilingual approach (there might be some), as well as on the complexity of the semantic layers, incl. registers, and the other cited variants.

If it works, this extension is as interesting and useful as complex and long-lasting, so I guess it is worth spending some thinking on the issue.

Thank you for kicking the ball in the first place.

Regards,

F.


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