Yes, that definitively is one promising approach (and I hope that we would make a rough impact analysis before deciding on it and implementing it, once the structures and data are there).
I wonder if there are other approaches that are somehow more subtle. But I cannot express what I am looking for, and maybe yours is already sufficiently close to optimal. On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 11:00 AM Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 16.09.2016 um 19:41 schrieb Denny Vrandečić: > > Yes, there should be some connection between items and lexemes, but I am > still > > hazy about details on how exactly this should look like. If someone could > > actually make a strawman proposal, that would be great. > > > > I think the connection should live in the statement space, and not be on > the > > level of labels, but that is just a hunch. I'd be happy to see proposals > incoming. > > My thinking is this: > > On some Sense of a Lexeme, there is a Statement saying that this Sense > refers to > a given concept (Item). If the property for stating this is well-known, we > can > track the Sense-to-Item relationship in the database. We can then > automatically > show the lexeme's lemma as a (pseudo-)alias on the Item, and perhaps also > use it > (and maybe all forms of the lexeme!) for indexing the item for search. So: > > from ( Lexeme - Sense - Statement -> Item ) > we can derive ( Item -> Lexeme - Forms ) > > In the beginning of Wikidata, I was very reluctant about the software > knowing > about "magic" properties. Now I feel better about this, since wikidata > properties are established as a permanent vocabulary that can be used by > any > software, including our own. > > -- > Daniel Kinzler > Senior Software Developer > > Wikimedia Deutschland > Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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