[Lexicog] word frequency

Martin Hosken martin_hosken at SIL.ORG
Wed Sep 14 10:33:33 UTC 2005


Dear Ulrich,

>1)
>Can the occurrence-number be transferred from each of the words in the
>word-list (created from text corpus) into the appropriate entry of the
>dictionary database? Assuming there is a filed marker for that.
>
>2)
>Is it possible that the MDF exports some sort of a mark that would flag a
>certain number of the most frequent words? 
>I assume a CC table could add an info to all entries whose frequency number
>is abouve the value we set. The question is what type of a mark or a flag
>can be added by the MDF into the paragraph. The student dictionaries I saw
>use certain symbols (e.g. asterisk or a ball) right in the white space in
>front of the lemma.
>  
>
I would add two fields to the MDF schema. One would be for the frequency 
and one for an inclusion marker. Then use a filter to only include 
records whose inclusion marker says to include the lemma.

GB,
Martin


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