On 4 November 2010 12:21, Francis Bond
<bond@********> wrote:
G'day,
On 4 November 2010 10:32, Stuart McGraw
<smcg4191@********> wrote:
I'm interested in how you and Glen (or anyone else) would use them.
The reason I ask is because I thought a bit about adding them in
the database long ago but decided then not to because a sense doesn't
seem to have much of an identity -- it is really just a container
for glosses (and maybe a sense note) and as such, one container
is as good as another. I had not then realized that they do have
identities by virtue of being pointed to by xrefs. But I wonder
if there are any other reasons?
Sense are used in tagging example sentences --- we want to show that this instance of a word in its context refers to a particular sense. A persistent identifier for sense would make this much easier.
Senses are also the natural level for richer semantic linking (犬 "dog" is an animal, but 犬 "spy" is not) and linking to other lexicons.