Re: Summary of Telco 07.02.2014

Dear all,

very nice, it seems that the telco was very productive without me, I 
should consider staying away now and then ;-)

I will work this into the current document next week.

Best regards,

Philipp.

Am 07.02.14 16:29, schrieb John P. McCrae:
> Hi all,
>
> So today at the telco we had myself, Paul, Francesca, Elena and Lupe.
>
> We discussed based on Philipp's proposal
>
>     I propose we go with the following four variants + translation:
>     1) FormVariant: Relation between two forms of one lexical entry
>     2) LexicalVariant: Relation between two lexical entries that are
>     related by some well-defined string-operation (e.g. creating an
>     initialism like in FAO)
>     3) TerminlogicalVariant: Relation between two lexical senses (with
>     the same reference) of two lexical entries; the lexical entries
>     are thus uniquely determined; the senses might have different
>     contextual and pragmatic conditions (register, etc.)
>     4) SemanticVariant: As 3) Relation between senses with references
>     that are ontologically related, either by subsumption or are
>     children of a common superconcept (see my paella and risotto example)
>     5) Translation: As with 3), but involving entries from different
>     languages.
>     So we would have one relation between forms (FormVariant), one
>     relation between lexical entries (LexicalVariant), and three
>     relations at the sense level (TerminologicalVariant,
>     SemanticVariant and Translation).
>     We might think about introducing a SenseRelation as a superclass
>     of TerminologicalVariant, SemanticVariant and Translation.
>     Hypernym and Hyponym would also be a SenseRelation in this sense.
>
>
> The discussion was as follows:
> *
> *
> *Form variants*: We discussed the need to distinguish form 
> (inflectional) variants as opposed to lexical (entry) variants. The 
> primary reason for this was to separate variation between 
> LexicalEntrys and Form (as defined in the core). It was felt that the 
> distinction between form and lexical variant was too fine-grained and 
> that the modelling of this as variants is probably not appropriate. 
> For example, if we consider
>
> :Cat a LexicalEntry
>   ontolex:canonicalForm :Cat#CanonicalForm (writtenRep "cat"@eng),
>   ontolex:otherForm :Cat#PluralForm  (writtenRep "cats"@eng) .
>
> Then modelling the relationship as
>
> :Cat#CanonicalForm ontolex:plural :Cat#PluralForm
>
> is inferior to (especially in the case that there are large number of 
> inflections of a single lemma, such as an Italian verb)
>
> :Cat#CanonicalForm ontolex:number ontolex:singular .
> :Cat#PluralForm ontolex:number ontolex:plural .
>
> For these reasons, it was preferred not to introduce form variants
>
> *Term(inological)Variants/SemanticVariant: *We agreed with the idea of 
> introducing a superclass SenseRelation subsuming both TermVariants and 
> SemanticVariants as follows
>
>   * TermVariants have the same reference (e.g., diachronic, diatopic etc.)
>   * SemanticVariants have different references (e.g., antonymy,
>     "similar", (maybe?) hypernymy)
>
> It was also suggested to shorten the name TerminologicalVariant to 
> TermVariant
>
> *Translation: *We discussed the idea of distinguishing between 
> (Lemma/Term) *Translation* and *Culturally-Equivalent Translation *by 
> saying *Translation * is a *TermVariant * and *Culturally-Equivalent 
> Translation* is a *Semantic Variant.*
> It was suggested that we consider introducing a class 
> *MultilingualVariant** subsuming *Translation *and*C.E.T. *and 
> subsumed by *SenseRelation, *for relations between languages, this 
> would also include broader/narrower cross-lingual alignments as used 
> in Interlingual Indexes for WordNets etc.
> * or cross-lingual variant or inter-lingual variant
>
> I attach a diagram to show the proposal
>
> Regards,
> John
>
>


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