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Re: Hyperlinking a dictionary to a corpus

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Friday, December 2, 2005, 23:52
--- Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...>
wrote:


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> I.e. AFAIU your Elomi is isolating and rather > simplistic > (at least it seems so at first sight), but what > about > more complex agglutinating or even inflecting > languages?
Elomi, which, for the record, is the invention of Larry Sulky, (I just play with it for fun because it sounds neat and is easy to learn) does have that advantage. I'm not sure how I'd do it for more complex languages. My own Latin-like Tazhu has all kinds of case endings and verb conjugations that would make a project like that a nightmare. I imagine the program would need some kind of cross reference tables to relate one form of the word to all the other forms so that (to use a Latin example) the table would have to equate "cogitare", "cogito", "cogitas", "cogitat", "cogitamus", etc., etc. to each other so that they would all generate the same HTML anchor name, probably "#cogitare". For an agglutiating language it would be a real nightmare! I don't een want to think about that one ;-) --gary

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Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>