- From: McBride, Brian <brian.mcbride@hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:49:10 +0100
- To: Guus Schreiber <schreiber@cs.vu.nl>, "McBride, Brian" <brian.mcbride@hp.com>
- Cc: public-swbp-wg@w3.org
Hi Guus, Thanks for the comments on ... http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/WNET/wordnet-sw-20040713.html [...] > 1. > > [[ > ... words are represented by resources of type wn:Word. The > properties > wn:hasWordForm and wn:hasLanguage relate a word to its word form and > language respectively. > ]] > > We probably should document why we decide to adopt this > instead of using > rdfs:label with a language tag. Even in a pure "as-is" approach one > might one to use such RDF constructs. I'm not sure that we've actually got a decision in this as opposed to a proposal. However, ... How much rational to include in a spec is always an issue. I tend to the view that one should separate specification and rational because the rational can too easily weaken the clarity the spec, but that is just a personal view. Also the text you quote is in the introduction where I think the emphasis should be on description rather than justification. I'd be inclined to put the rational in the more detailed description of the word class when I get round to adding the property definitions that aren't there yet. Shall I do that and see if it addresses your comments? I was also thinking of having an issues appendix, at least for the development of the document and keeping track of decisions with rational there. > > 2. > > [[ > A wn:WordSense resource can be thought of as representing a > (word sense, > synset) pair. > ]] > > I assume you mean "*word*-synset pair". wn:WordSense is (in old ER > terms) a "weak entity", i.e. its existence depends on other > entities. It > is linked to precisely one wn:Word and precisely one wn:Synset, right? Right fixed. > > > 3. > > [[ > A word sense, which is sense number N in the synset with > identifier $$ > is named by $WNBASE/sense/$$/N# > ]] > > The schema in the document does not talk about a sense number. In the > RDF file I see: > > [[ > <rdf:Property rdf:ID="tagCount"> <!--Brian: added --> > <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#WordSense"/> > <rdfs:range rdf:resource="&xsd;nonNegativeInteger"/> > </rdf:Property> > ]] > > Am I correct in assuming this represents the sense number? > Can it be a zero? This was out of data anyway, and even more so now since Danbri pointed out that WNET now has sense identifiers. So I think this will change. Added a marker for now. > > > 4 [silly] > > I guess most nonnative speakers will not know the verb "to dog". I've switch this to "plant". Is that better? I've also added a comments/issues section that lists TF members actions. Would you rather track these centrally as part of the WG action list? Brian
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