6. feb. 2015 kl. 19:07 skrev Richard Light <[email protected]>:

> 
> On 06/02/2015 18:11, Øyvind Eide wrote:
>> If one source refers to one object, then it is not a co-reference. Then it 
>> is a reference. 
>> 
>> Co-reference is there to say that you know (for some reason you may specify 
>> if you want to) that two or more word/phrases refer to the same real-world 
>> person. The latter can be specififed or it can be left undefined.
>> 
>> I fail to see why co-reference should solve the problem of single 
>> propositional objects referring to real world objects — we already had 
>> mecanisms for that.
> OK, here is an example.  This section of Linked Data text from the 
> recently-opened EEBO:
> 
> http://data.modes.org.uk/TEI-P5/EEBO-TCP/id/A01483.d1e2619
> 
> is, in my opinion, talking about this non-information object:
> 
> http://dbpedia.org/resource/Edward_Plantagenet,_17th_Earl_of_Warwick
> 
> How would you model that in the CRM?

I would say the two are propositional objects co-referring. No problem.

> 
>> 
>> I have a feeling that the problems documented in the long paper would apply 
>> to single references too if the target is not modelled within your 
>> information system. This may be linked to fundamental problems with the 
>> whole linked data paradigm. But this is just a feeling so I have to flesh it 
>> out more to say something evidence based on it.
> This is an aspect of the issue which I don't understand.  If you can't 
> (knowingly) decide that you trust an external Linked Data resource and are 
> allowed to make assertions which touch on the entities which it defines, what 
> hope is there for the whole Linked Data project?  (Or, if this constraint is 
> specific to the CRM, then the same point applies more locally. :-) )

Sure you can trust something external to your infomration system. As, for 
instance, a propositional object.

I am afraid we may be talking past each other but it may be too late for me to 
see how…

Best,

Øyvind

> 
> Richard
> 
>> 
>> I may have misunderstood you question so please use smaller spoons if I did!
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Øyvind
>> 
>> 6. feb. 2015 kl. 18:08 skrev Richard Light <[email protected]>:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> If I have interpreted your longer paper correctly, that means that the 
>>> whole co-reference mechanism that the CRM has erected fails to address the 
>>> practical requirement which I would have.  That is, the ability for me to 
>>> indicate that a word or phrase in a source document refers (in my opinion), 
>>> to a specified real-world person (or other non-information object).
>>> 
>>> Have I got this right, and, if so, is there a CRM mechanism which does 
>>> allow me to make this kind of assertion?
>>> 
>>> Best wishes,
>>> 
>>> Richard
>>> 
>>> On 04/02/2015 12:06, Øyvind Eide wrote:
>>>> Dear all,
>>>> 
>>>> Please find enclosed my homework for issue 230. It consists of two things:
>>>> 
>>>> * New scope notes for E91 Co-Reference Assignment, shortened to keep 
>>>> semantic web complexity out of the CRM. Thanks to Gerald for input.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> * A draft for a document describing the complexity left out of the scope 
>>>> notes, based on Martin's previous scope notes and input from Arianna (but 
>>>> no responsibility on any of them for the result!). This document could be 
>>>> developed into a technical paper referred to from CRM, to an article, or 
>>>> both.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Best,
>>>> 
>>>> Øyvind
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>>> -- 
>>> Richard Light
>> 
> 
> -- 
> Richard Light

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