Things we do not understand or are a design issue.
Things we do not understand or are a design issue.
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* '''Individual or class''' - should the canonical ingredient be seen as an individual or class? The normalisation can be seen as a method to classify all ingredient names. Each ingredient name, i.e. ''en:butter'' or ''fr:beurre'' is an individual, which now mapped onto a single individual ''en:butter''. It all depends how an indivual is mapped onto a class. I assume now that the inference engine does the parsing of the canonical ingredient name.
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* '''Individual or class''' - should the canonical ingredient be seen as an individual or class? The normalisation can be seen as a method to classify all ingredient names. Each ingredient name, i.e. ''en:butter'' or ''fr:beurre'' is an individual, which now mapped onto a single individual ''en:butter''. It all depends how an indivual is mapped onto a class. I assume now that the inference engine does the parsing of the canonical ingredient name. For each canonical name we could define: