- From: Philippe-Andre Prindeville <philipp@res.enst.fr>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 95 00:05:35 +0200
- To: www-html@www10.w3.org
Hi... I was just thinking about knobots and machine generated indexes for search engines (as I often do for lack of something useful to occupy me ;-)... And the following struck me: In texts, you can have: wolfram for tungsten constantinople for instanbul consumption for cancer king charles for charlemagne mark twain for samuel langhorn clemens etc. Ie, there are words and names that in other languages, times, contexts, dialects, etc. might have several "aliases". We need to be able to tag these associations (equivalences) so that "unworldly" software (search engines, possibly AI, possibly not) can still make intelligent selections. Anyone else feel there is a need here? Then there is the case of names being language dependent, like budweiser (german) being natively budevice (czech)... but that's a different can of worms. -Philip
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