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Subject: Re: [dita-translation] Fw: Updated Acronym Proposal posted
Very interesting!
Many Thanks for sharing the concept with us.
Best Regards,
AZ
Robert D Anderson wrote:
> Forwarding Erik's response to Felix so it gets into the archives.
>
> Robert D Anderson
> IBM Authoring Tools Development
> Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit
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> Erik
> Hennum/Oakland/IB
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> Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org>
> 02/01/2008 12:42 cc
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> Subject
> Re: Updated Acronym Proposal posted
> (Document link: Robert D Anderson)
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> Hi, Felix:
>
> Here's the approved controlled values proposal, which can define simple
> enumerations but can also scale up to define hierarchical (taxonomic)
> relationships between concepts:
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> http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/26359/IssueControlledValues12031.html
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> Yes, <glossAlt> captures an alternate term for the same meaning.
>
> The association of a glossentry topic defining a term sense with a Wordnet
> sysnset would just be a special case of linking (where the link indicates a
> processable relation rather than just traversal to a new document). So,
> one way to do that would be to use a related link within the glossentry
> topic, as in the following example:
>
> ... <glossentry id="usbfd">
> ....... <glossterm>USB flash drive</glossterm>
> ....... <glossdef>A small portable drive.</glossdef>
> ....... <glossBody> ... </glossBody>
> ....... <related-links>
> ........... <link format="html" role="other" otherrole="equivalent" href="
> http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=nonvolatile+storage";>
> ............... <linktext>Nonvolatile storage</linktext>
> ........... </link>
> ....... <related-links>
> ... </glossentry>
>
> Probably there is a better URL for the synset rather than the lexical
> label, but you get the idea.
>
> Anyway, many times, the relationship won't be exact equivalence but instead
> a kind-of or part-of relationship. For that reason, I'd suggest instead
> using the specialized map provided by the controlled values proposal to
> specify the link:
>
> ... <subjectScheme>
> ....... <subjectdef format="html" navtitle="Nonvolatile storage" href="
> http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=nonvolatile+storage";>
> ........... <hasKind>
> ............... <subjectdef navtitle="USB flash drive" href="usbfd.dita"/>
> ............... references to other hyponyms of "Nonvolatile storage"
> defined locally or elsewhere
> ........... </hasKind>
> ....... </subjectdef>
> ....... references to other hypernyms defined by WordNet, by local
> glossentry topics, or elsewhere
> ... </subjectScheme>
>
> In fact, it should be possible to convert the core of WordNet into a set of
> DITA glossentry topics related by a DITA subjectScheme map, thus making the
> WordNet sense definitions available for local processing in a DITA XML
> format.
>
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> Hoping that's interesting,
>
>
> Erik Hennum
> ehennum@us.ibm.com
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>> Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org>
>> 01/29/2008 05:30 PM
>>
>> Subject
>>
>> Re: Updated Acronym Proposal posted
>>
>> Hello Robert or others,
>>
>> I have a question about
>> "The enumeration is validated by means of the proposed controlled values
>> mechanism"
>> and "(Please see the Proposal 12031 for Controlled Values.)"
>> is the formulation of this proposal available?
>>
>> Also I saw the requirement "List synonyms, abbreviations, acronyms, and
>> other alternative terms with the same meaning. (Called a synomym set by
>> WordNet; please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsets.)"
>> If I understand correctly, the <glossAlt> element is used for this
>> purpose. My question here is: is it possible to have here reference to
>> an external source, e.g. an WordNet entry, and if yes, is it possible to
>> specify what kind of processing is needed for such a reference? In the
>> case of WordNet you might not point to a lexical item directly but to an
>> identifier of a sysnset The necessary processing would be the resolution
>> of an appropriate lexical item from that identifier.
>>
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