Am 16.09.2016 um 19:41 schrieb Denny Vrandečić:
Yes, there should be some connection between items and lexemes, but I am still hazy about details on how exactly this should look like. If someone could actually make a strawman proposal, that would be great.
I think the connection should live in the statement space, and not be on the level of labels, but that is just a hunch. I'd be happy to see proposals incoming.
My thinking is this:
On some Sense of a Lexeme, there is a Statement saying that this Sense refers to a given concept (Item). If the property for stating this is well-known, we can track the Sense-to-Item relationship in the database. We can then automatically show the lexeme's lemma as a (pseudo-)alias on the Item, and perhaps also use it (and maybe all forms of the lexeme!) for indexing the item for search. So:
from ( Lexeme - Sense - Statement -> Item ) we can derive ( Item -> Lexeme - Forms )
In the beginning of Wikidata, I was very reluctant about the software knowing about "magic" properties. Now I feel better about this, since wikidata properties are established as a permanent vocabulary that can be used by any software, including our own.