Re: Hyperlinking a dictionary to a corpus

Emaelivpeith Gary Shannon:
> I learn best by example and analogy so when I look up
> a word in a dictionary I like to have ready access to
> a handful of sentence that use that word so I can see
> how the word actually behaves in the wild.
I agree completely with you! I wish more dictionaries had example
sentences. (I actually got started on the idea of at least one example
sentence per dictionary entry from HS Teoh, who was doing it for
Tatari Faran.)

> To that end, I've written a program to create my
> dictionary page and a sample sentence page from a
> dictionary file and a corpus of sentences.
I already have a working solution for the data format of my dictionary
that formats my example sentences, but I'd like to see how you did it.
It's always good to see multiple approaches to the same problem. :)

If you want to see my format, the dictionary is at
http://dictionary.arthaey.com or just the example sentences by
themselves at http://lexicon.arthaey.com/examples.html (or
http://arthaey.mine.nu/~arthaey/conlang/lexicon/examples.html if that
link isn't working).

I should probably cross-reference that latter URL against the
dictionary entries. Maybe interlinearize them, too...

> Here's what the hyperlinked Elomi dictionary (a work
> in progress with a few bugs yet) looks like:
> http://fiziwig.com/lexicon.html
Looks like a good start. Do you plan to add cross-reference links to
the rest of the dictionary?


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