Searching by theme

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July 22, 2009

> On Jul 22, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Suzanne pach wrote:
> Hello,
> Thanks for your email! I tried it with the BSL and the
> Dutch Sign Language animal signs that I wrote and it works
> :) Have a nice day! Suzanne
>

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Hello Suzanne!

Wonderful! Thanks for telling us. I am really excited to see signs  
being added to both the British and Dutch Sign Language Dictionaries  
on SignPuddle......Those are two sign languages that have not had that  
many signwriters over the years...so thank you for this work,  
Suzanne...and your use of the theme or thema is working well, you are  
right...it is easy to search for themes that way...Val ;-)


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Val ;-)

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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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