Am 27.07.2011 19:22, schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer:
Am 27.07.2011, 12:01 Uhr, schrieb Richard Fairhurst<rich...@systemed.net>:
every native English speaker would
pronunce St in that context as 'saint'. That, to me, is a pretty
conclusive
argument that we should tag "St".
In Italian "S." can mean "San", "Sant'" and "Santa", "Ss." can mean
"Santi" and "Santissimo"/"Santissima"/"Santissimi"/"Santissime"
because you have to care for gender, grammatical number and if the
name starts with a vowel. I guess dealing automatically with this is
not completely impossible but it certainly requires some effort (not
to mention if you wanted to apply different rules for all languages
that occur in the planet).
That, to me, is a convincing argument to tag the unabbreviated form
and let software (easily) do the abbreviation, instead of tagging
the abbreviation and have software do the (next to impossible) task
to un-abbreviate.
I cannot concur with Richards argument of "native speakers" in that
case. Native speakers (read: humans) have context knowledge that
our software (in the forseeable future) just does not have, and we
want (humans AND) software to deal with our data, don't we?
Cheers,
Kay
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