[Lexicog] marking semantic domain subcategories

[John Roberts]

Wayne,

In my Toolbox Amele-English dictionary I have a \lf (lexical function) field
followed by a \lv (vernacular) field. The lexical functions I have entered
so far are: antonym, ant-complementary, ant-converse, ant-gradable,
ant-reciprocal, cohyponym, hyponym and synonym. I can "extract" these
lexical functions by using the browse option in Toolbox.

In browse fields I set the order to \lf \lv \lx. This gives me three windows
arranged left to right. Then I left click the \lf window which alphabetizes
according to all the lexical functions above. Then I left click on the \lv
window which then alphabetizes all the vernacular forms within the lexical
functions. Then I can see all the different types of 'caterpillar', say,
listed under \lf Hypo \lv maman, or the synonyms of 'sasail caja'
"prostitute" listed under \lf Syn \lv sasail caja, or all the antonymous
relationships, and so on.

Is this what you had in mind?

John Roberts


----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Leman" <wayne_leman at sil.org>
To: <lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 5:17 AM
Subject: [Lexicog] marking semantic domain subcategories


> Sure, Mike. Superordinate categories and subordinate categories, for
> instance. I am only aware of a single \sd (semantic domain) field for
> Shoebox and Toolbox. There may be some way to indicate semantic domain
> hierarchy that I don't know about. We should, for instance, not only be
> able
> within Lexique Pro to pull up all horses from our \sd horse fields, but
> also
> when we do so, we should be able to tell from the Lexique Pro display of
> the
> database markers that the horse semantic domain is a subcategory of the
> animals domain. Currently, I can mark more than one semantic domain for a
> lexical entry, but I have no way of showing any semantic relationship or
> hierarchy between multiple semantic domains for a record.
>
> Wayne
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> Wayne Leman
> Cheyenne website: http://www.geocities.com/cheyenne_language
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>> Wayne Leman wrote:
>>> Does anyone on this list know of any way to mark lexical subcategories
>>> and
>>> other aspect of semantic domain hierarchy within any of the current
>>> lexicography software (Shoebox, Toolbox, TshwaneLex, etc.)?
>>
>> Could you explain a bit more what you mean?  What are some
>> examples, and why can't they be marked in e.g. Shoebox?
>> (Maybe the latter will be obvious when I see some examples.)
>> --
>> Mike Maxwell
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