BSL signs and Dutch Sign Language signs in SignPuddle

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July 8, 2009

On Jul 8, 2009, at 9:16 AM, Suzanne pach wrote:
> I wondered whether it is possible to search for a certain
> category, for example if you are looking for all the
> different animal signs in the dictionary. With all the
> signs I have written 'animal' in the text bit, but the
> search engine only looks for the actual terms, not for the
> information written in the text area. Thanks and have a nice day!
> Suzanne

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Hello Suzanne!
Thank you for this question.

Yes...you can do this. "Searching by Theme" I call it.

It is correct that we cannot search on the Text Area yet. That is for  
definitions and later we hope to build in a feature where we can  
search on the Text Area...

So how do you "Search by Theme"? Go to French-Swiss Dictionary Puddle  
to see an example...

http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/index.php?ui=4&sgn=49

See attached screen capture....Search for ANIMAUX. You will see that  
inside the Terms area, that is searchable, they used the French word  
LISTE, to mean THEME, and for each Animal sign, they added a second  
Term that is Liste: ANIMAUX. In English that would be Theme: ANIMAL

So then you can search for all the signs that have the word "Theme",  
or you can search for all the signs that have the word "Animal"...

You have 12 possible places for terms for each entry so you could  
place many themes for one sign if you want...Here is an example from  
the French-Swiss Dictionary...


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