Toolkit for dictionary development
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We all do similar things when making dictionaries. Make a load of scripts that we hack to do a specific job, then throw them away a the end. It would be nice to have some maintained scripts that could lighten the load.
When we're making a new dictionary, what resources do we have and use ?
- Descriptive grammar of some variety (best case, reference grammar, worst case collection of 'teach yourself stuff from the web')
- Glosses (either from the web, or from the grammar)
- Monolingual corpus
- Frequency list
- Partially made analyser
- Spellchecker (list of validated surface forms)
What kind of things might we want to do ?
- Assign possible categories to surface forms from the corpus
- e.g. DET *UNK* ADJ → DET N ADJ
- Assign possible features to surface forms in the corpus
- e.g. DET *UNK* ADJ.M.SG → DET N.M.SG ADJ.M.SG
- DET *UNK* ADJ.MF.PL → DET N.GD.PL ADJ.MF.PL
- Relate forms in the corpus between each other by means of paradigms
- Sometimes you might get conflicts, in this case the paradigm<->stem combinations could get a score which is related to the predictive power according to the corpus.
