Le 7 sept. 06 à 18:15, Lachlan Hunt a écrit :
> I think it's quite clear to a human reader that Jan is a Prime  
> Minister.  It's not clear from that sentence which country he is  
> from, but that wasn't indicated in original example of Tony Blair  
> either.  However, one can assume the sentence would be in the  
> context of an article that would indicate such information, or the  
> sentence could have been written more like either of these:

There are not only human readers on the Web.
There are human readers who needs a bit of help.
There are interesting applications that can be built on top of  
*explicit* semantics.

Following the case as you mentionned it, A raw text/plain is quite  
clear for a human reader.

A concrete example

Story from BBC NEWS:
Blair hit by wave of resignations
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/politics/5319328.stm 
Published: 2006/09/06 17:31:12 GMT

You will noticed that prime minister appears twice never associated  
with Tony Blair. A machine would have a hell of time to associate  
both instance.





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