- From: Mark van Assem <mark@cs.vu.nl>
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:34:04 +0100
- To: Johannes Busse <busse@ontoprise.de>
- CC: public-esw-thes@w3.org, Jakob Voss <jakob.voss@gbv.de>
Hi,
> When investigating into various thesaurus formats in the past I have
> learned that there is a clear distinction between semantic and
> linguistic thesauri. SKOS explicitly was classified being a semantic
I'd say there is only one _type_ of thesaurus: a semantic one. Each
term is a lexicalization of a certain concept; it somehow stands for
or "points at" the concept.
Then there's the _domain_ of the thesaurus, which can be linguistic
(WordNet), art (AAT), medical (MeSH), ...
Mark.
> framework. However, in our use case we needed both: An automatic
> Information Extraction component gives words, and the thesaurus was
> supposed to help mapping words to concepts.
>
> I would appreciate a framework where both meta-concepts - linguistic
> words or terms and semantic concepts - could be handled easily. (And if
> such a solution would be conceptually aligned to some WordNet
> meta-concepts it would make communication even more simple. But that's
> only a nice-to-have requirement :-) )
>
> yours
> Johannes
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>
>
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Mark F.J. van Assem - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Received on Thursday, 15 February 2007 09:34:38 UTC