Lecture Tuesday 19 April 2005

It's worth the cost of creating a controlled vocab; saves in the long run (D Batty)

Land's end: quilt & comforter & coverlet
controlled vocab in place
but ample cross-referencing necessary

word
cancer

term
breast cancer

name
invasive ductal carcinoma

label

word: minimal element of speech having meaning as expressing some idea, as in a thing, attribute or relation space unit
term: shortest set (non-minimal) of words for an idea, to a complex whole
name: may bemore than one word; proper noun or noun phrase that refers to a particular instaqnce of a general kind
label: some vague ostensive quality, functional sense

how many names? - has to have thing-status
how many labels? -

anaphora and ambiguity - computational systems: how do they provide context?

naming schemes are interesting

vaguely english
or environmental
or golf-related

subdivisions & marketing

lots of things are being loaded into names

"The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else
of the same name." - Aldous Huxley

JULIET: 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.


LINK ANCHORS

what do I link? common words? whole phrases?


IA: naming, labeling, linking, signaling, means for doing