morph module feedback on assigning meanings

Hi everyone,

Tuesday the issue of assigning meanings to morph resources has been 
addressed within the telco. For the following two issues we discussed 
possibilities but could not reach a convincing conclusion. I kindly ask 
you to provide your feedback on this.

*1) Describing the meanings of stem resources*

Option one is to create a new property morp:meaning that interconnects a 
stem resource with an ontolex:LexicalSense resource. Option two is to 
create an automatic connection that assigns all senses of the 
ontolex:LexicalEntry instance - to which the ontolex:Form instances that 
contain the stems belongs - to the stem resources.  E.g. the instance 
ex:stem_play is a part of ex:form_plays and should have the same senses 
as ex:lex_play. As a result each stem resource would have exactly the 
same ontolex:LexicalSense assignments as its corresponding 
ontolex:LexicalEntry resource. Since the stem is the lexical-semantic 
core of all grammatical forms that can be build from a lexical entry 
this method would save time since the senses do not need to be repeated 
for each stem resource. However, there might be too many exceptions 
applying to this and result in wrong implications. Option 1, in 
contrast, might result in inconsistent datasets with stem resources 
pointing to different senses than its corresponding lexical entry. 
Comments from people working with lexical datasets sharing their 
experiences and practical needs for representing the meanings of stems 
would be very helpful here.

*2) Describing the meanings of grammatical affixes contained in 
ontolex:Form resources*

According to the existing OntoLex-Lemon specification an example was 
created that applies to the usage recommendation of reusing the lexinfo 
vocabulary:

ex:suffix_s a morph:AffixMorph ;

  lexinfo:number lexinfo:plural .

The statement that should be expressed is "The suffix -s encodes the 
meaning of plural.". Within the discussion two possible interpretions of 
the given example emerged. A) It states that the meaning of the suffix 
-s resource is plural. B)  It states that the suffix -s carries the 
lexinfo number value of plural. Please, share your understanding of this 
triple and whether you think the reuse of the lexinfo vocabulary, as it 
is proposed to be used for ontolex:Form and ontolex:LexicalEntry 
resources within the specification, can be also applied to model the 
meaning of grammatical morphemes or if this statement differs from the 
intended meaning and another modelling solution needs to be worked out.

Of course, I am also glad to get to know different options or solutions 
you see for solving these issues.

The minutes of the telco are here: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11DVFOhtyefjcoKUqf5SDHOejny7Tt1R08CrpL1807rs/edit?usp=sharing

Feel free to also comment, edit and add further examples/proposals 
directly into the document.

Regards,

Bettina

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Bettina Klimek
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Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI)
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