[Data-modeling] Local Names for languages

[Robert Cook]

Unless locale could be a dimension as well (which would certainly be  
confusing to anybody using this data), I think you need to have a  
CVT.  In any case 10K instances of a CVT is not a big deal, given that  
this is high value data.

R
On Mar 7, 2009, at 1:49 AM, Kurt Bollacker wrote:

>
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 09:07:30PM -0800, John Giannandrea wrote:
>>
>> what is it the local name of?  i.e. whats being annotated?
>
> It's the local name of a language.  The same language might be spoken
> in several counries, but each country gives the language its own name.
> That's why I called it a localized alias.
>
> For example, the language with iso 639-3 code LDI is called "Laari" in
> Congo and "Laadi" in Angola, although it's the same thing. AFAIK,
> these names are also somewhat independent of the language in which
> they are being spoken-- e.g. If the speakers are using French, they'll
> still use Laari and Laadi depending on where they are.
>
> It'd be great to find a more efficient representation than a CVT.
>
> 								Kurt :-)
>
>
>
>> -jg
>>
>> On Mar 6, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Kurt Bollacker wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I'm in the process of modeling some of the Rosetta language data for
>>> inclusion in Freebase.  One of the properties I have is "local  
>>> name",
>>> which is really a tuple of:
>>>
>>> - A language
>>> - A country
>>> - A literal (probably in that language)
>>>
>>> This is really just a /common/topic/alias with a locale.
>>>
>>> I was planning to model this as a CVT (there are only about 10K
>>> instances), but if there are any ideas of something better, I'm all
>>> ears.
>>>
>>> 									Kurt
>>> 									;-)
>>>
>>>
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