<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Paul Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:baloo@ursamundi.org" target="_blank">baloo@ursamundi.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="">On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 4:50 AM, François Lacombe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:francois.lacombe@telecom-bretagne.eu" target="_blank">francois.lacombe@telecom-bretagne.eu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Could someone precise me why abbreviations should always be avoided in tagging please ?</div>
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</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>This is already explained at length in the wiki, but chiefly because it disambiguates things a lot. Data consumers can create abbreviations from full words, but expanding abbreviations accurately in an automated fashion is about as hard as writing a program that can pass a Turing test.</div>
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<br></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra">Indeed. This was driven home for me when my GPS announced "You have arrived at your destination, the Cathedral of Street Paul."<br></div></div></div>