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From: Karen Coyle <lists_at_kcoyle.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 15:14:36 -0800
> On 11/11/12 1:58 PM, Dan Matei wrote:
> > My Paris example is a bad one :-( My point is: "lexical co-location"
> > is could be valuable for the user. Suppose I'm looking for
> > "Stockhausen" (knowing exactly that I mean Karlheinz S.). But if the
> > name "Markus Stockhausen" is shown to me after K.S., maybe this way I
> > find out that Karlheinz has a son, composer too. Dan
>
> Dan,
>
> But if there was a daughter Mabel who marries Mr. Smith and becomes
> Mabel Smith... :-)
Waw ! This way I discover that Karlheitz's daughther entered in Carl Smith's family ! :-)
I agree that "see also" is a better way to link related things. Just that, sometimes collocation saves us some work.
For
instance:
Max Plank
Plank constant
or
Thomas Bayes
Bayesian inference
Dan
Received on Mon Nov 12 2012 - 02:03:02 EST