[Sigia-l] locations of synonym terms in hierarchical taxonomies?

[alfred at thunderstick.com]

If you look at the DMOZ hierarchy, aka google directory, aka yahoo
directory - they indicate synonyms with @ links - if you browse those
directories you will see examples at different levels.

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Eric Scheid wrote:

>
> If I have a taxonomy of some subject, and certain terms have various
> synonyms, I can represent those synonym relationships with the SYN
> relationship (and express preferred terms with USE/USEFOR relationships).
>
> My question is ... do those synonyms need to exist in the same place in the
> hierarchy? They are, after all, *synonyms* for the same *thing*, and that
> *thing* exists within that hierarchy in one place.
>
> Does anyone have any example taxonomy hierarchies where synonym terms might
> appear in different hierarchical places?
>
> e.
>
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