Non-English synonyms

[paola-scibite]

Hi,

I understand that some non-English synonyms in UBERON are derived from older ontologies (see #209). I presume you may want to keep them for historical and referencing reasons. However, I wonder if keeping them (only) in the current format is ideal, e.g.

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0011238
UBERON:0011238 mesethmoid bone
Synonyms: dermethmocïde@fr mésethmocïde@fr

Those synonyms are interpretable by a human, but probably not very helpful in text searches. If Uberon has an interest in providing non-English synonyms, perhaps consider adding "dermethmocïde" and "mésethmocïde" as exact synonyms?
There are several other occurrences of Uberon synonyms with "@"s.

Thanks,
Paola

[paolaroncaglia]

Hi, any volunteer to address my non-english synonyms question please?

[balhoff]

Dealing with languages has been under active discussion led by @matentzn in OBO recently: OBOFoundry/OBOFoundry.github.io#479

[matentzn]

I would like to build proper language profiles for Uberon - but I was going to do that first for HPO. My suggestion is this:

• We remove all language tagged terms from Uberon for now (Release 25 July incl normalisation #1984)
• Adding them to a separate language profile (Release 25 July incl normalisation #1984)
• Eventually, when we get to it, make proper language translations using wikidata.

Right now we have only 83 translated synonyms, which does not really merrit a huge effort here.

[matentzn]

I wish in all honesty we had the time to deal with this.. Internationalisation would be such a massive move forward for our users..