Re: Hyperlinking a dictionary to a corpus

--- Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...>
wrote:


<snip>

> 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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