(Sorry, Ralph :-)
> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:19:29 +0100
> From: Robert Sanderson <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > The thing is, one can imagine a single taxonomy (= thesaurus in
> > the Zthes sense) that represents multiple separate "equivalent"
> > relations.
>
> Then you'd need to distinguish the particular sort of equivalence,
> as opposed to the taxonomy/thesaurus/ontology. And it would be up
> to the experts in the domain to specify the distinction, and hence
> be in its own context set.
Yes, that's my feeling too. A core set of using-a-thesaurus indexes
and modifiers could provide an unvarnished "fb.equivalent", but with a
note in the context-set document that domain-specific context sets are
welcome to define more specific notions of equivalence.
> >>>>> Oh and then how do you combine broader with equivalent?
>
> >> Is there a good example of when it's useful to do the other way around?
> >> If not, we can just say that Broader is to be handled before
> >> Equivalent.
>
> > I can't think of an example offhand where you want equivalence
> > processed first, but that most certainly doesn't mean there couldn't
> > be one, and I wouldn't want to make the mistake of perpetrating a
> > design that prevents this.
>
> On second thoughts, it seems out of scope. Otherwise we need to come up
> with processing rules for various combinations of modifiers that relate
> to the term data, most of which will be obvious.
I don't see how that makes it "out of scope". Which scope?
> For example,
>
> /fb.broader<3/cql.stem
>
> Do you apply the stemming before or after the broader? (The answer
> is, of course, that you stem the results of the expansion, otherwise
> you'll not find any expanded results)
Yes; but I don't see how this is analogous.
> There could be a rule that relation modifiers that function on the
> term data should be placed in the order of execution.
>
> eg: foo =/fb.broader<3/fb.equivalent/cql.stem/cql.phonetic tyrannosaurus
>
> is broader then equivalent then stem then phonetic.
I toyed with suggesting that, then decided that it would be in
everyone's best interests if I pretended not to have thought of it.
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