Talk:Canonical form

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I don't know whether the order of terms in a polynomials is a good example, since it would be more logical to write it in ascending order.

Btw almost all links on this page point to things about which the canonical page says (or said ;) that they are not canonical... also in view of the length of the present article, I think it might be merged into normal form. — MFH: Talk 18:52, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I think normal form is a better general concept. Charles Matthews 18:59, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Use in computer linguistics

The term "canonical form" is also used to designate the normal form of dictionary entries. For single words this is the lemma form (e.g. infinitive for verbs and nominal singular for nouns if these forms exist).

For multiword terms, usually there is a head word in lemma form, but the other words may be inflected.

Example: "grüner Tee" is a canonical forms, the head word is "Tee", and it is different from the series of lemmata "grün Tee".

[edit] merge with canonical form (boolean algebra)

This page is so short, it should be merged with the boolean algebra page. Also, i find it very odd that the page "maxterm" redirects here.... I'm going to change that redirect. Fresheneesz 07:24, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scope of this article / classification theorems

OK, some of the examples I included, while fitting the general pattern, probably wouldn't be called "canonical forms", but rather "classification theorem" (e.g. the types of Hilbert spaces), "structure theorem" or "representation theorem"...

But I still think it would be nice to have a big list of all these things somewhere... Ideas how to organize this?

Functor salad 12:03, 20 September 2007 (UTC)