[Lexicog] a question about profession

[Wayne Leman]

I'd like to see a visual matrix of all semantic links from any lexical entry. I'd like to see different colored lines for semantic relationships of synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, etc. It would also be nice if vernacular music played in the background while all the links were getting displayed. Oh, and a talking head pronouncing each entry in the linkage matrix. Uhm, a little slot at the bottom of the computer monitor of which would come, no, not verncular money, but vernacular food. Yeah, that would be good.

Wayne
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Wayne Leman
Cheyenne website: http://www.geocities.com/cheyenne_language
  I would also be VERY interested in any responses to this.

  In fact, I would be interested in any discussion about how this might be
  done.  Think outside the box!  What would you like to see if you had a
  bucket of pixie dust and two Aladdin's lamps.

  On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 15:58 -0800, Wayne Leman wrote:
  > I've been fascinated with words all my life. Both my mother and father
  > were/are, as well. I have spent the last 30 years studying the
  > Cheyenne language spoken in Montana and Oklahoma. It's part of the
  > large Algonquian language family of North America. I thoroughly enjoy
  > rooting around in the Cheyenne lexicon. It's a high point of any day
  > for me if I discover some new Cheyenne word. I'm glad that we have
  > computers now and decent programs for working with lexical data. The
  > program I use most of the time for lexical work are Shoebox and
  > Lexique Pro. Actually, I seldom use Shoebox anymore, but, instead, do
  > everything directly from Lexique Pro. It's one of the most
  > user-friendly computer programs I have used. I would like to see
  > better ways of displaying semantic networks. Semantic domain lists are
  > a good start but there is a lot more to semantic networking than
  > linear lists. Of course there are plenty of semantic links available
  > within Shoebox, Toolbox, and other similar lexical programs, but I
  > have yet to use a program that *displays* the variety of linkages very
  > well. I have been fascinated using a lexical program for English
  > called Visual Thesaurus. It would be nice if we could display semantic
  > linkages for other languages as VT does for English.
  >  
  > Wayne
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  > Wayne Leman
  > Cheyenne website: http://www.geocities.com/cheyenne_language
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