[Lexicog] Digest Number 343

[Mike Maxwell]

Allan Johnson wrote:
> ...here in the Philippines... we've followed a standard that makes the sense
> primary, with part of speech and specific word forms beneath it in the
> hierarchy.

Clarification question: I'm not sure what you mean about the specific
wordforms being lower in the hierarchy.  It sounds like a thesaurus, but
I don't think that's what you mean.  Do you mean instead that the
citation form (presumably a bare stem, which probably is a possible
wordform in at least several POSs), and that any irregular forms go
under each POS?

> So I'm wondering how far this flexibility could take me.  Given an MDF
> dictionary that I want to publish in PLB format, could I import it to
> LinguaLinks, rearrange the entry parts, and then export it to PLB format?
> If this is a possibility, it would provide a wonderful solution to some
> difficult dictionary publication problems that we have come up against.  My
> hunch is that LinguaLinks' flexibility won't take me quite this far.  I'd
> like to experiment with it and see how far it can go in transforming the
> shape of an entry.

Any transformation you want would be possible by learning CQL, the LL
programming language.  But I suspect you don't want to go that far,
unless you have a lot of these dictionaries.  (Of course, Ken Zook came
from the Philippines branch of SIL, and was an accomplished CQL
programmer...)

There are of course other ways to re-order fields, if that's all you
need.  You might for instance consider parsing your SFM files (if that's
what they are) with Python or Perl, and doing the re-arranging that way.
--
	Mike Maxwell
	Linguistic Data Consortium
	maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu


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