[Corpora-List] Food Resources

[John F Sowa]

On 7/8/2014 12:10 PM, Demner Fushman, Dina (NIH/NLM/LHC) [E] wrote:
> The Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus
> http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/ has semantic type food:
> http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/META3_current_semantic_types.html

This raises the many complex issues about contexts and domains.
The UMLS has a rather "medical" view of food.

On 7/8/2014 12:52 PM, Ted Han wrote:
> Depending on what you’re looking to do, the LA Times did a writeup of
> scraping together a database from their archive of recipes using NLTK:
> http://datadesk.latimes.com/posts/2013/12/natural-language-processing-in-the-kitchen/

Even this barely scratches the surface of food preparation and eating.
Just consider the differences:  home cooking; restaurants ranging from
Michelin stars to pushcarts, cafeterias, and mess halls; the many
ethnic cuisines, ingredients, and methods of preparation; gardening,
farming, agribusiness; mass produced food products; meals, desserts,
snacks, banquets, picnics, fasts, feasts, famines, and all the social,
religious, and advertising practices, prohibitions, rituals...

How would any of these issues relate to the earlier discussions
about schemas, scripts, prototypes, and word senses?

John

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