Re: Changes in synsem and vartrans

Dear Philipp, all

In the vartrans module, a "translation" property is defined as a shortcut
of the "Translation" class [1]. However, the chosen identifier violates our
rule of not using the same word to identify both a class and a property. A
new name should be found for this property.
Nevertheless, if such a property is there for backwards compatibility only,
I see a simpler solution, which is to use lexinfo:translation and define it
as a sense relation:

lexinfo:translation rdfs:subPropertyOf vartrans:senseRel

(although I am not 100% happy with this solution, either). Maybe we could
briefly discuss about this in our next telco.

Regards,
Jorge




[1]
https://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/wiki/Final_Model_Specification#Translation_as_a_relation_between_lexical_senses

2015-07-06 10:19 GMT+02:00 Philipp Cimiano <cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de>
:

> Dear all,
>
>  I have implemented now all the changes in the vartrans module that
> Manuel, Jorge and Lupe pointed me to. Also the ontologies and the examples
> have been updated...
>
> Let me also say that I have done a number of more fundamental changes in
> the synsem module in agreement with John. Fortunately, these are rather
> conceptual changes and have little impact on the actual way the model will
> be used. In fact, from the structure these changes are quite backwads
> compatible both with what we had so far as well as with the original lemon
> model.
>
> Let me explain a bit the rationale for this....
>
> It has been clear that there has been quite some discussion on the
> SemanticFrame class and in particular whether there is such a thing as a
> semantic argument in the model and whether semantic arguments are distinct
> from each other...
>
> It seems to me that the main issue has been that the SemanticFrame class
> has been interpreted differently as it was supposed to. Essentialy, this
> class was supposed to represent the bindings of arguments of ontological
> predicates to the syntactic arguments they are realized by. However, I
> agree that the name "SemanticFrame" makes one think about "Frames" in the
> tradition of Framenet, which actually in our case would play the role of
> ontological "references" rather than of Lexical Senses.
>
> Further, it was indeed awkard to say that a SemanticFrame is a subclass of
> LexicalSense.
>
> Thus, John came up with a proposal I like quite a lot and which I have
> implemented in the wiki, ontology and examples already. The proposal
> consists in renaming a few classes to make their actual role and function
> better graspable and to avoid confusion with other related but not
> equivalent concepts. So here is the proposed renaming:
>
> SemanticFrame -> OntoMap (reflecting that it actually specifies how the
> ontological arguments of a predicate "map" to syntactic arguments of a
> syntactic frame and the other way round; this thus more or less corresponds
> to the SynSemCorrespondence in KMF).
>
> SemanticArgument -> obsolete (not needed anymore)
>
> Syntactic Argument and Syntactic Frame -> stay as they are
>
> semArg -> ontoCorrespondence (to make clear that it establishes a
> correspondence between an ontological argument and a syntactic argument)
>
> subframe -> submap (to be consistent with renaming SemanticFrame as
> OntoMap)
>
> I hope you all agree with these changes. Please review them carefully. We
> will have chance to discuss them on the 17th of Juli where we will have the
> final telco on the model.
>
> I send a separate email to remind us all of the upcoming discussion on the
> LIME module this week.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Philipp.
>
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