Re: Lexicon management

Remi Villatel said:
>
> For those who already have a somewhat big lexicon, how do you manage it?
I've generally used flatfiles and Unix text-crunching tools to manage
large glossaries. If you're careful about your file format, you should be
able to kludge together a way to reverse such a glossary.


> And there is more! There are examples, hints about the use, the
> grammatical
> type of the words, their role in a sentence, sometimes their level of
> speech, the associated postposition... And I didn't even mentioned that
> some English translations are composed of several words amongst which ones
> I must decide which one will be used to sort this entry.

If I needed a dictionary with microstructure that rich, I'd use XML and
Java. (There are other options besides Java, of course, so use what you
know or learn something new that's going to do the job.)

This may in fact come to pass with the artlangs I'm working on.


-- Mark

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