[Lexicog] Cheyenne dictionary: the jury's verdict

[Koontz John E]

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Wayne Leman wrote:
> Marie-Odile, the CD release is experimental so far. We are looking for ways
> to improve it. If we can make it easier for Cheyennes to locate headwords
> (and, hopefully, also retain display of semantic closeness by dictionary
> location closeness), we want to do that. There is no search engine on the
> CD. The dictionary is just a Microsoft Word document exported from Shoebox.
> The user searches the dictionary just as they do any printed dictionary.

It seems to me that one way to get this effect is to publish in HTML or
XML format instead of *.doc format.  I guess *.pdf format also allows
links.  Any format that allows links permits easy connections among forms
with the same stem and indices by stems are easy to provide separately or
intermingled with the "word form" list.  Linking means that closeness is
no longer defined only by physical proximity.

Would Guy Gambil's Wordnet suggestion be a way of automating this sort of
thing?

Of course, even extensive linking is not a complete replacement for
searching facilities.



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