8.10.1 Definition

The Text Analysis data category is used to annotate content with lexical or conceptual information for the purpose of contextual disambiguation. This information can be provided by so-called text analysis software agents such as named entity recognizers, lexical concept disambiguators, etc., and is represented by either string valued or IRI references to possible resource descriptions. Example: A named entity recognizer provides the information that the string "Dublin" in a certain context denotes a town in Ireland.

The information can be used for several purposes, including, but not limited to:

- Informing a human agent such as a translator that a certain fragment of textual content (so-called text analysis target) is may follow specific translation rules. Examples: proper names, brands, or officially regulated expressions.

- Informing a software agent such as a content management system about the conceptual type of a textual entity to enable special processing. Examples: places, personal names, product names, or geographic names, chemical compounds, protein names, are situated in a specific index. 

The data category provides three pieces of annotation: confidence, entity type or concept class, entity identifier or concept identifier as specified in the following table.

constraining facets => bounding facets

Note:

The use case for Text Analysis is distinct from that for the Terminology data category. Text Analysis informs human agents or software agents in cases where either explicit terminology information is not (yet) available, or would not be appropriate, e.g. conceptual information for general vocabulary.

Second paragraph: drop Web, just use external resource

Second note: accommodate => accommodated

Some external resources such as DBpedia also provide information for some ontological concepts and named entity definitions in multiple languages, and this facilitates translation even more because a possible link traversal would allow a direct access to foreign language labels for named entities.

Example 58: quotes missing for attributes lang, charset, href, and rel.