Lexicalization as collection of senses/onomasiological lexicon

Hi all,

So there was an interesting discussion on the telco last week about the
nature of "lexicalization"... I will try to make a summary/proposal.

We can currently represent the data as a collection of words (lexical
entries) by means of the Lexicon object, and as a set of concepts as an OWL
ontology, however there is no object for describing how a single lexicon
lexicalizes a single ontology. This would be useful for metadata so that we
can say how much coverage a lexicon gives relative to the ontology.

This "lexicalization" object that has proposed by Armando, is an object
that describes the connection between an ontology and a lexicon, is a
collection of pairs (Ontology Entity, Lexical Entry) or as we know them
better Lexical Senses! Thus we can define the Lexicalization as a
collection of senses.

Related to this is the fact that some lexicons (e.g.,
SALDO<http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/resource/saldo> and
arguably WordNet) are based around senses not words, and are thus
onomasiological lexicons, that is the lexicon as a collection of senses, as
opposed to a collection of words. To this end it may make sense to name the
lexicalization something else, such as SenseLexicon, as its role as a
lexicon of senses. In practice then the proposal is to have something like
this:

Lexicon          o===== LexicalEntry
                             ||
                            sense
                             vv
Lexicalization   o===== LexicalSense
                             ||
                          reference
                             vv
Ontology    o===== Class/Property/Individual

Does this seem reasonable?

Regards,
John