Elements of Successful Translation
Structural semantics - well-defined (or at least well-understood) grammar in the (common/foreign) language
Reasonable mapping of input language to output language possibilities
- if the languages don’t match in expressive or representation power, stop, we have a problem!
Data’s organizational semantics
- e.g. Airport: point feature; areal feature; bag of polygons; spatially-organized bags of polygons; bag of “objects”; spatially-organized bags of “objects”, …