Specs

Business Value

Q: What do I want to appear in that software ? A: Typically, I want to be able to navigate through a network of lexical entries, along various relationship. Q: What are these lexical entries ? A: There are several kind of lexical entries: words, part of words, phrasal verbs, polyword, collocation, institutionalized utterances, idioms, sayings, sentence frames, text frames. All these categories forms the lexicon of a language, which is precisely what I want to learn. To be fluent, I must know lexical items from all these categories, so they should all be present in the software. Q: What are the relationship between them ? A: There are also several kind of relationship, but I don't currently have a precise list.

Types of Lexical Entries

Types of Lexical Entry Relationships

For words, I want to know all the collocation in which the word occur, since knowing the meaning of a word does not always allow to use it appropriatly: one should know the common contexts in which to use it.

In English

Verb

For a english verb:

• I want to know all the verbal phrases that are built around it. (get up, get off, get on to, ...)
• I want to know specific collocations in which it appears, if they exist.
• I want to know variants using «stretched verbs» (to consider => to take [sth] into consideration)
• I want to know synonym expressions (to consider => to look at, to examine)
• I want semantically related expressions (to promise => to keep a promise)

Noun

For an english noun:

• I want to know the light verb that may be used with it.
• I want to know specific collocations:
  • Action verbs associated with it as object (to commit a murder)
  • Action verbs associated with it as subject (the dog barks and the lion roars)

Data

Chinese

Database

Different Data Objects:

LanguagePattern:
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simplified : String
traditional : String[]   (??)
pinyin : String

GrammaticalCategories <<enum>>
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Noun
Pronoun
Verb
ModalVerb   (?)
Adjective
Adverb
Conjuctions
MeasureWord
Preposition
Particle
Affixe   (?)
NumberWord   (?)
Interjection   (?)
Onomatopoeia   (?)

This list of categories can be refine to a finer level if necessary.

GrammaticalRelations <<enum>>
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Noun <-> MeasureWord  [n-n]
Verb <-> MeasureWord  [n-n]   (?)

JSON Objects

LanguagePattern:

{

}