Re: No universal things Re: comparing XML and RDF data models

On 3 Jul 2008, at 15:00, Dan Brickley wrote:

> (as an aside)
>
> Bijan Parsia wrote:
>
>> I remember also a project where we were trying to get people to  
>> write simple triples. They got that they needed triples. But what  
>> they ended up putting into the tool was things like
>> S               P          O
>> "The cat is" "on the" "mat".
>> "Mary eats" "pudding" "on toast"
>> They just split up the sentences into somewhat equal parts!
>
> I wonder how that experiment would work in other countries. US  
> schooling seems to teach English grammar with something called  
> "sentence graphing" or "sentence diagramming".

Yep. And these were US people, by and large. But sentence diagramming  
generally would produce better triples (since you look at parts of  
speech). They really just divided the sentences into three roughly  
equal parts :)

Cheers,
Bijan.

Received on Thursday, 3 July 2008 15:48:01 UTC