Annotation of role/office/function as NE?

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Annotation of role/office/function as NE? #48

Closed mgeorgescu closed 11 years ago

mgeorgescu commented 11 years ago

So far we have annotated semantically the job titles/functions occupied by a person, etc by decomposing it (e.g. (s/ secretary :mod (f/ foreign)). In this set we have come across some examples where it seemed somewhat odd to attempt to "decompose" a "job title":

Secretary-General
Secretary General
Deputy Secretary General
Secretary of State
Foreign Secretary
Foreign Press Secretary
Chief Secretary
State Public safety Secretary
Secretary General of National Defense
Home Secretary
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Prime Minister-in-waiting

To some extent, we thought that these might be annotated as NE of a certain position/function occupied by a person as some point in time.

uhermjakob commented 11 years ago

These job positions are not NEs. The only reason why they are capitalized is probably because they directly precede the name of the office holder. Current policy is to decompose these job titles, e.g.

(s / secretary
  :mod (g / general))

Exception: military ranks, e.g.

(l / brigadier-general)

See issue #31 regarding the new have-org-role-91.

nschneid commented 11 years ago

What is the rationale for treating military ranks differently? "Brigadier General" and "Secretary General" seem equally semi-compositional to me. ("Secretary General" ≠ "General Secretary", for example. You could say there is a special postmodifying sense of "general" that only exists in names of offices/ranks, imported from French.)