[go] Fwd: [Go-database] Synonym length

[Midori Harris]

In fact, it's for the RSC's text mining system that the synonyms were 
requested and added in the first place.

(There were 9 over the limit; I took them out yesterday but could put them 
back, as Chris says he's increased the limit in the meantime.)

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On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark) wrote:

> Hi,
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> They might also be useful for reasoning and natural language processing 
> applications where a human would not be involved to spot that the text is 
> very long.
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> Jen
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> Amelia Ireland wrote:
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>> Back in Gotham City, Harold Drabkin wrote:
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>>> I would doubt someone would search on such a synonym.  Our synonyms should 
>>> aid in searching for the right term.
>>> 
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>> As a general rule, though, we should not let the database structure
>> dictate what information the GO holds; if more cases come up where there
>> are lengthy synonyms, we should consider allowing longer entries in the
>> synonyms field to accommodate them. With some of these chemical names, it
>> might be that people see them in a paper or online somewhere, and they
>> just cut and paste them into the search box in AmiGO (or whatever GO tool
>> they are using). They probably wouldn't stop to consider how long the name
>> of the chemical is.
>>
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