- From: Miles, AJ (Alistair) <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:06:25 -0000
- To: "'public-esw-thes@w3.org'" <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
Summary: Issue 10 - Pure Lexical relationships By stating that relationships like 'broader' and 'narrower' are 'semantic relationships' we have been very clear about that fact that these are not relationships between terms, but relationships between the meaning of the terms, i.e. the concepts. However, there are some relationships which could be considered to exist purely between the terms. For example, "stimuli" is the plural-form-of "stimulus". "RDF" is an acronym-for "Resource Description Framework". By what mechanism to we allow these kinds of statements to be expressed as part of an RDF thesaurus? Suggested solution 1: We use b-nodes to represent terms, with the property rdf:value pointing to the literal value. The statements may be made connecting these two b-nodes, e.g. ... Suggested solution 2:: We don't bother with them. Instead we offer the recommendation that all acronyms be included as possible labels for a concept. Plural forms probably don't need be included as modern stemming algorithms can identify the root of the term. So e.g. ... CCLRC - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Building R1 Room 1.60 Fermi Avenue Chilton Didcot Oxfordshire OX11 0QX United Kingdom Email: a.j.miles@rl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0)1235 445440
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