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What’s the difference between bold and normal?

Open snomos opened this issue 4 years ago • 3 comments

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See screen shot. I could not find an obvious explanation, and also no textual explanation.

snomos avatar Nov 03 '21 06:11 snomos

Bold content is words that are attested in the corpus. There have been discussions about how to indicate what this means, but I don't believe an issue has been opened for that yet.

dwhieb avatar Nov 03 '21 19:11 dwhieb

Thanks for the clarification. It won't be easy to make that clear and intuitive to the users. The obvious follow-up question: is it really that useful? Is it important enough to warant a tentatively confusing feature of the GUI? In the end, the potential users of the paradigm does not want to just reproduce documented forms. Presumably they want to learn and explore the full range of expressions in the language. I would instead move this info to a KWIC concordance view of an online corpus, linked to from the enttries in the morphodict. Doing it like that requires the user to be online, but IMHO that is a better solution than the present system.

Just my 2 ¢ 🙂

snomos avatar Nov 03 '21 20:11 snomos

The original reason for indicating words that have been attested in a corpus or dictionary in comparison is that this is a feature that some potential stake-holders have raised. That is, they'd expressed that it would be important to know if a word has been spoken and used by some speaker (and validated), or whether it's merely constructed by the computational model. Whether this concern is generally shared or truly relevant is another matter.

aarppe avatar Nov 17 '21 17:11 aarppe