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

[Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark)]

Hi,

It seems to me that if we have the option of being comprehensive in 
something that can be done systematically like this then it is well 
worth doing. I'd hate to be standing up in front of an audience in the 
coming year and telling them that we have added 9,991 out of 10,000 
chemical synonyms, and that we left 9 out because they wouldn't fit. It 
seems to go against what we're doing somehow. If Chris is happy to 
stretch a point, I'd be keen to keep them in (and encourage the RSC to 
keep on sending them).

Jen



Midori Harris wrote:

> 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.)
>
> m
>
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Jennifer Deegan (nee Clark) wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Jen
>>
>>
>> Amelia Ireland wrote:
>>
>>> Back in Gotham City, Harold Drabkin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I would doubt someone would search on such a synonym.  Our synonyms 
>>>> should aid in searching for the right term.
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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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Jennifer Deegan nee Clark
EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
Gene Ontology Consortium