Am 02.11.2016 um 21:53 schrieb Denny Vrandečić:
> Hi,
>
> I am not questioning or criticizing, just curious - why was it decided to
> implement lemmas as terms? I guess it is for code reuse purposes, but just
> wanted to ask.

Yes, ideed. We have code for rendering, serializing, indexing, and searching
Terms. We do not have any infrastructure for plain strings. We could also handle
it as a monolingual-text StringValue, but that offers less re-use, in particular
no search, and no batch lookup for rendering.

Also, conceptually, the lemma is rather similar to a label. And it's always *in*
a language. The only question is whether we only have one, or multiple (for
variants/scripts). But one will do for now.


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Daniel Kinzler
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