[Lexicog] marking semantic domain subcategories

[Allan Johnson]

Hi Wayne,

Yes, you can display a category as subordinate to another in Lexique Pro.
An example of this is in the Bambara sample that comes with the program.
To set up categories in your own dictionary to work this way, you don't
need to edit anything in the dictionary file itself.  All that's needed in
the dictionary file is what you already have - just \sd fields with a
unique code or name for each basic category.  The definition of
subcategories is all in the configuration file.  This is edited as follows:

- Start up Lexique Pro and load your dictionary
- On the menu bar, go to Tools; Configure Lexicon
- Press "Next" 12 times to get to the configuration of Categories
- Select the "Category Names" tab
- With the mouse, click on the category that you'd like to define as a
sub-category (horse), and drag it onto the one that is to become its parent
category (animals).  When you release the mouse button, check to see that
the display has reconnected it as a subcategory of the right thing.

You can also change the display names for the categories, if you have codes
that you don't want to display as is:

- Select the category whose name you'd like to display differently
- click on "Change"
- Enter the desired English name

When you're done configuring the Categories, press "Next" 5 more times to
return to your dictionary and see how it has changed the Lexique Pro
Categories view.

Out of curiosity, I tried creating a subcategory of a subcategory to see if
this could be done - but it crashed the program. Apparently one level of
subcategories is all that's currently supported (version 2.2).

Allan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Leman" <wayne_leman at sil.org>
To: <lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 12:17 PM
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
> -----
> 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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