From 9c416685ab350552f315a936bb34c187fbe3e307 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: uresova <137729291+uresova@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2023 20:59:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Adding ML notes

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 doc/entities.md | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/entities.md b/doc/entities.md
index 3f5405d..617f907 100644
--- a/doc/entities.md
+++ b/doc/entities.md
@@ -579,6 +579,7 @@ tractable nor helpful to attempt to distinguish them. Perhaps the only
 exception is the scientific names in Latin, provided that the language of the 
 annotated text is not Latin. 
 
+ 
 Similarly, diseases may have scientific names but many common diseases are 
 just common nouns or expressions (_angína_ “tonsillitis”, _chřipka_ “flu”, 
 _mor_ “plague”, _neštovice_ “chickenpox”) and it is not clear why they should 
@@ -588,3 +589,13 @@ rather than entities.
 ### variable
 
 What is this supposed to mean?
+
+### ML notes: 
+Several questions about the named examples
+
+" the United States of America" is a "proper name", "America" is not - how to decide?
+Americas / America is a name of a continent, so I would say it is a "proper name" too?
+[Wikipedia on Americas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas) ?
+
+Proper noun by tedy mělo být to, čemu Dan říká "common noun" (part of speech)?
+[Dan's proposal](https://github.com/ufal/UMR/blob/main/doc/entities.md)