Re: telco this Friday

G'day,

 sure I agree with you. I was only referring to the examples we use in the
> spec document. Everyone is then free to use the language codes they want.
> The model is agnostic about the language codes actually being used, in the
> same way as it is agnostic with respect to the linguistic categories used.
>
> I hope this makes sense.
>


It does indeed.  Sorry, I hadn't realized it was just for the example.
Even in that case I have a mild preference for ISO 639-3, because I think
we should be encouraging people to move to use it, but I don't really mind
either way.

Yours,



> Best regards,
>
> Philipp.
>
> Am 30.01.14 08:11, schrieb Francis Bond:
>
> G'day,
>
>  Other that that I wanted to clarify one issue regarding language codes
>> in the example.
>>
>> I have seen that some people (John?) have started to use the ISO 639-2
>> codes (e.g. "ENG" for English, "SPA" for Spanish etc.).
>> I would propose we stick to the ISO 639-1 two-letter ISO 639-1 codes
>> (e.g. "EN", "ES") etc. There is no particular reason for this other than
>> the fact that most people know these codes.
>>
>> If the argument is recency and reusing the newest standard, then we would
>> have to go anyway for four letter codes according to ISO 639-6.
>>
>
>  In the open mulitlingual wordnet we use the three letter codes because
> there are people working on languages which do not have two letter codes,
> such as Abui (abz),  Minangkabau (min) or Cantonese (yue).  Note that some
> of these are large language communities, Minangkabauhas around 6 million
> speakers. I think this is a strong argument for not going back to the two
> letter codes.
>
>
>> Regarding the particular versions of a language spoken in a particular
>> country, I recommend we follow the principle of IETF tags which consists of
>> the ISO code followed (if applicable) by a hyphen and the ISO 3166-1 code
>> of the country. Thus the variation of English spoken
>> in the United States would be: "en-us" while the version of English
>> spoken in Great Britain would be "en-gb".
>>
>> I hope this is fine for everyone. I will add this information to the
>> document.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Philipp.
>>
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>>
>> Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano
>>
>> Phone: +49 521 106 12249
>> Fax: +49 521 106 12412
>> Mail: cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de
>>
>> Forschungsbau Intelligente Systeme (FBIIS)
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>> Universität Bielefeld
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>> 33619 Bielefeld
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Francis Bond <http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/>
> Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
> Nanyang Technological University
>
>
>
> --
>
> Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano
>
> Phone: +49 521 106 12249
> Fax: +49 521 106 12412
> Mail: cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de
>
> Forschungsbau Intelligente Systeme (FBIIS)
> Raum 2.307
> Universität Bielefeld
> Inspiration 1
> 33619 Bielefeld
>
>


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Francis Bond <http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/>
Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
Nanyang Technological University