- From: Butler, Mark <mark-h.butler@hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 18:04:29 +0100
- To: "'Miles, AJ (Alistair) '" <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>, "(www-rdf-dspace@w3.org)" <www-rdf-dspace@w3.org>
- Cc: "'public-esw-thes@w3.org'" <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
Hi Alistair First better warn you unfortunately I'm not working on SIMILE, but I'll explain my position here, as I did do a bit of the work on lexical mapping ... > The SKOS-Mapping schema [1] was designed to take care of semantic mappings. > But is there a requirement for expressing lexical mappings in RDF, and if > so, how do we do it without getting rather confused? > The reason why I previously didn't think expressing lexical mappings in RDF > was really necessary was because they could be automatically discovered by a > computer process at any time. But then I guess storing and publishing the > results of that process could be useful, especially when operating on large > data sets. I think we do need to do this, in fact I think this is related to our previous discussion on giving URIs to altLabels? Automated discovery doesn't quite work in the way you describe, because the computer will generate lexical mappings, but then anywhere between 10% and 50% of them are incorrect. So you need some way of capturing them, and reviewing them by hand if necessary. Does that seem sensible? Dr Mark H. Butler Research Scientist, HP Labs Bristol http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/marbut
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