[topicmapmail] Classification of occurrences using keywords

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Johannes Koppenwallner
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| I have a topic map with already defined topics and associations. Now
| I want to populate this map automatically with occurrences, which
| should be classified to the topics using keywords. (I know, a quite
| primitive way to classify.)

The first thing to note here is that the concepts of "keyword" and
"topic" are essentially the same, so as you say this is somewhat
primitive. 

If you are going to annotate the documents with what concepts they are
about, why not to it by referring to the topics using URIs? It should
be no harder, and that way that you avoid the problems with homonyms
and suchlike.

| To make this work, I have defined keywords for every existing
| topic. It would be nice to define the keywords/topic relation in the
| topicmap, so nothing else than the topic map is needed to classify
| documents. 

I agree. You could, when specifying the topics in each document, also
specify the occurrence type; allowing users to describe the
relationship between the topic and the document.

| So my question is: What's the best way to model the relation between
| a topic and it's keywords?

A topic and its keywords? Do you mean a topic and its occurrences? If
not, what is a keyword? Could you give some examples?

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