[Lexicog] Lexique Pro dictionary components

[Hayim Sheynin]

Prof. Dr. Erdoğan BOZ,

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On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Erdogan Boz <dr.erdoganboz at gmail.com>wrote:

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> There was someone in this group:)
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> 26 Nisan 2014 Cumartesi tarihinde, Melissa Axelrod <axelrod at unm.edu>
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>> Nice list!
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>> On Apr 26, 2014, at 12:41 PM, "Bill Poser" <billposer2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>       Here are a few suggestions for fields to include:
>>  (a) meaning note - you may want your English gloss to be brief, e.g. so
>> that it can be used as a headword in a printed dictionary or so that it
>> will fit in a fixed position in an on-line one, or so that it can easily be
>> used for lookup in the English->Mojave direction. You can use the meaning
>> note field to expand on the meaning of the word.
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>>  (b) scientific name - for living things. Anyone doing biological work
>> will appreciate this. One virtue of the scientific name is that many
>> organisms have multiple English names and that the same name may refer to
>> different species in different areas, or when used by lay people and
>> biologists.
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>>  (c) synonyms
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>>  (d) closely related words with distinct meanings (e.g. in my
>> dictionaries "waterfall with turbulent flow" contains a cross-reference to
>> "waterfall with laminar flow".)
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>>  (e) register - is the word vulgar,  no longer in use, old-fashioned,
>> high-falutin, slang, etc.
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>>  (f) semantic field - is the word the name of a bird, a fish, an animal,
>> a tool, a body part, a kinship term, something to do with religion,
>> education, hunting, etc. This will come in handy if you want to generate a
>> topical index, or if, in your electronic dictionary, you want the user who
>> has looked up a word to be able to explore by moving on to other words in
>> the same category.
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>>  (g) grammatical categories such as tense, mood, aspect, and negation -
>> these are useful if you are listing inflected forms separately. You can use
>> this information to search for examples of a particular category, e.g. all
>> the future negative verb forms. It also relieves you of the need to attempt
>> to convey in the English gloss grammatical information that doesn't have
>> any simple English equivalent (e.g. an imperfective/perfective distinction).
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>>  (h) grammar notes - this is a place in which you can explain what kind
>> of complements a verb takes and things like that.
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>>  (i) inflected forms - if you are treating inflected forms of a certain
>> category together, it may still be useful to record individual inflected
>> forms as part of the entry. For example, you might want to have fields for
>> the various possessed forms of nouns, or plurals, or vocatives if your
>> language has such things, especially when they are irregular.
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>>  (j) data sources - where does the information come from? In addition to
>> the names of speakers who provided the information, you may have
>> information that comes from other dictionaries or from texts produced by a
>> group or of anonymous authorship.
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>>  (k) etymology - where does the word come from?
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>>  (l) inverse header - depending on how you are doing things, it can be
>> useful to include in an entry the headword or headwords under which you
>> would want to find the entry when going from, e.g., English to Mojave.
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>> On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 4:06 AM, Richard Gravina <
>> Richard-Sue_Gravina at sil.org> wrote:
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>>>  Have you also looked at programs such as Fieldworks and WeSay? Lexique
>>> Pro is good for displaying dictionaries, but for building a dictionary
>>> these other programs are better.
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>>> When it comes to deciding which components to include, it would be best
>>> to get the advice of a linguist who is familiar with your language, or
>>> other related languages. There may be grammatical properties that it is
>>> important to include, but those will be specific to the language.
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>>> Best wishes,
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>>> Richard
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>>>  *From:* Benjamin Barrett
>>> *Sent:* Friday, April 25, 2014 9:26 PM
>>> *To:* lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com
>>> *Subject:* Re: [Lexicog] Lexique Pro dictionary components
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>>> I cannot help with Lexique, but I have been working on a pilot project
>>> for Lushootseed using the Wiki Foundation (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, etc.)
>>> software, which is free, flexible and easily accessible. (Configuration is
>>> not easy as the instructions that are available can be difficult to
>>> follow.)
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>>> You can see my beta project at:
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>>> http://lushootseed.langrev.com/wiktionary/Main_Page
>>> http://lushootseed.langrev.com/wiktionary/sqig%CA%B7%C9%99c
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>>> HTH
>>> Ben Barrett
>>> La Conner, WA
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>>> Learn Ainu! https://sites.google.com/site/aynuitak1/videos
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>>>  On Apr 25, 2014, at 7:36 AM, nataliegdiaz at gmail.com wrote:
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>>> Hello.
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>>> I am a new member to the group, and my Elders and I are using Lexique
>>> Pro to build our heritage language dictionary. I would like to get input as
>>> to which components of word meanings you believe are most important to
>>> include when building a dictionary. Right now, we have only the basics,
>>> such as the english gloss, the definition, part of speech, and we also have
>>> multiple audio and video files that allow the word to be heard in a
>>> sentence or within a story or song.
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>>> Our dictionary is intended for our community, as a! learning tool, and
>>> as a tool that can help support a language curriculum in the school.
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>>> But we want to make it as dynamic and helpful as possible, in addition,
>>> we hope that it can be helpful to any of our learners who might enter into
>>> the linguistic field in the future.
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>>> As well, any suggestions or tips you might have for working with Lexique
>>> will be appreciated and helpful.
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>>> 'Ahotk
>>> Natalie
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