Re: HM.applications-Translations

["Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>]

> [...] I mean an equivalent consideration for the Sierra
> Madre in Mexico could also be a cultural fit for this
> element value. So how do you get machines to draw
> the connection?

You could have a profile for the document that explains the cultural
connections of the author, and then augment the data within the instance
according to that profile upon delivery to the user.

The way you'd do it using RDF annotations is probably to assign a context
to the document, and then have an anonymous node with a lexical value
representing the "Sierras".

   [ :lexVal "Sierra" ] .

Then, when you take into account something like:-

   [ :authorOf this; :nationality :Mexican ] .

You can conclude that:-

   [ :lexVal "Sierra" ] :probablyMeansInThisContext
     [ :lexVal "Sierra Madre" ] .

Or whatever. You'd need a rulebase containing FOPL statements for it to
work, but that's coming along.

Tip: think in terms of DLGs laid on top of structural XML.

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Sean B. Palmer
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