Thinking about it again, and discussing it internally, maybe we should
replace "word" with "expression" and "meaning" with "sense"?

Any +1's or differing opinions?


2013/6/20 Denny Vrandečić <denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de>

> The current proposal does not cover grammar rules explicitly. If at all, I
> would regard that as a later extension once the lexical information is in
> place. Also, my limited understanding of the topic does not even allow for
> coming up with a data model to cover grammar rules, or to know whether
> there is something like sufficiently widely accepted models to represent
> grammar, or if there are still discussions whether Chomsky or Systemic
> Functional Grammars or whatever else would make the cut...
>
> Regarding "word" vs "expression" - I do not care much about the actual
> term, and it seems that both seem valid. With the suggested change from
> "meaning" to "word sense" though, it might make more sense to keep "word"
> here. But as said, no strong opinion here. I definitively see that saying
> that <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carry_coals_to_Newcastle> is a "word"
> is kinda weird. "expression" would fix that.
>
> Any further opinions?
>
> Cheers,
> Denny
>
>
>
>
> 2013/6/19 David Cuenca <dacu...@gmail.com>
>
>> Hi Denny,
>>
>> Thank you very much for this fantastic update about the intentions of
>> supporting a semantic dictionary in Wikidata :)
>> Just a minor correction: I think instead of "word", it should be
>> "expression" because some languages don't follow the same logic.
>>
>> On the other hand, do you think it would be possible to accommodate
>> grammar rules too?
>> I have added some people from Apertium that might have some insights
>> about it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Micru
>>
>>  On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Denny Vrandečić <
>> denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hello,
>>>
>>> I would like all interested in the interaction of Wikidata and
>>> Wiktionary to take a look at the following proposal. It is trying to serve
>>> all use cases mentioned so far, and remain still fairly simple to implement.
>>>
>>> <http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary>
>>>
>>> To the best of our knowledge, we have checked all discussions on this
>>> topic, and also related work like OmegaWiki, Wordnet, etc., and are
>>> building on top of that.
>>>
>>> I would extremely appreciate if some liaison editors could reach out to
>>> the Wiktionaries in order to get a wider discussion base. We are currently
>>> reading more on related work and trying to improve the proposal.
>>>
>>> It would be great if we could keep the discussion on the discussion page
>>> on the wiki, so to bundle it a bit. Or at least have pointers there.
>>>
>>> <http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Wiktionary>
>>>
>>> Note that we are giving this proposal early. Implementation has not
>>> started yet (obviously, otherwise the discussion would be a bit moot), and
>>> this is more a mid-term commitment (i.e. if the discussion goes smoothly,
>>> it might be implemented and deployed by the end of the year or so, although
>>> this depends on the results of the discussion obviously).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Denny
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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