Development ideas for dictionary format

The idea of this page is to collect ideas for how to expand the Apertium .dix format such that it could be a drop-in replacement for lexc. Currently it has many advantages over lexc: Convenient / easy validation, more restrictive syntax, support for multiword queues. The problem is that it doesn't support some useful features that lexc has, or not comfortably.

Archiphonemes

Perhaps use entities ?

The option of just using <s> is pretty much out,

<e><p><l><s n="pron"/></l><r><s n="L"/><s n="A"/><s n="G"/><s n="I"/></r></p><par n="CASE"/></e>

For

%<pron%>:%>%{L%}%{I%}%{K%}%{I%} CASE ;

Something like:

<e><p><l><s n="pron"/></l><r>&L;&A;&G;&I;</r></p><par n="CASE"/></e>

Might be liveable ? These would then be converted by the compiler into {L}{A}{G}{I} tags ?

Morpheme boundary

Current tags:

• <a> = "alarm"
• <s> = "symbol"
• <b> = "blank"
• <j> = "join"
• <g> = "group"

It's desirable that it be a single letter.

Available: c d f h k m n o q t u v w x y z

Further reading

• Anssi Yli-Jyrä (2011) "Explorations on Positionwise Flag Diacritics in Finite-State Morphology". NODALIDA
  • This paper adds flag diacritics for implementing morphophonology to a single-tape (e.g. like lttoolbox, no intersect/compose) finite-state transducer.