Re: Managing your corpus.

Parker Glynn-Adey:
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If you have a bunch of examples sentences in your language, how do you
store them and why?
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I hope you'll excuse me, but the second part of this question
made me laugh aloud.  :)  (The "why".)  Aside from the word
processor and webpage option, I liked this idea, suggested by
Gary Shannon:

<http://dedalvs.free.fr/kamakawi/dictionary/index.php>

With this type of corpus, you just add sentences, and each
word is turned into a link.  The result is not a dictionary (e.g.,
"teviko" is a noun that means "eel", with the following
characteristics...), but a database of direct translations, which
allow the user to kind of figure out what a word means
based on how they're used in sentence after sentence after
sentence.  I don't think it should necessarily be the only option
available, but it's an interesting thing to try.

-David
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