Re: [Aramorph-users] XML tables

[Pierrick Brihaye]

Hi,

Ahmed El-dawy wrote:

>   I've attached a supposed format for dictionary and compatiblity tables.
> You will find two .dtd files one for dictionary and the other for
> compatibility tables. Also you wil find some .xml files as examples.
> Once we agree on some xml structure I can write a small class to
> transform dictionaries to the new format.

Fine. Here are my comments :

I start with prefix.xml :

<entry>w</entry> : why not "unvocalized" ?
<voc>wa</voc> : why not "vocalized" ?
<morpy>Pref-Wa</morpy> : why not "morphology" ? Or 
"morphological-category" to be in sync with the english docs ;-)...
<gloss>and</gloss>
<pos>wa/CONJ+</pos> : may be "grammatical category"...

Well, as you can see, I like verbose XML :-)

Also, we could use the capabilities of XML :

<gloss>and + by/with</gloss>

May be changed to :
<glosses>
  <gloss>and</gloss>
  <gloss>by/with</gloss>
</glosses>

Similarly :

<pos>wa/CONJ+bi/PREP+</pos>

May be changed to :
<grammatical-categories>
 <grammatical-category>wa/CONJ</grammatical-category>
 <grammatical-category>bi/PREP</grammatical-category>
</grammatical-categories>

And, of course, the arabic words sould be encoded... in arabic.

Regarding, the stems dictionary, the format has to be slightly different 
because we have additional information (see 
http://www.nongnu.org/aramorph/english/dictionaries.html) :

<root>ktb</root>
<lemmaID>katab-u_1</lemmaID>

and, maybe, a "normalised" lemma
<lemma>katab</lemmaID>

Regarding the compatibility tables, something like this would be nice :

<compatibility-table>

  <compatibility>
    <prefix>Pref-0</prefix>
    <stem>FW</stem>
  </compatibility>

  <compatibility>
    <prefix>Pref-0</prefix>
    <stem> FW-Wa</stem>
  </compatibility>

  <compatibility>
    <prefix>Pref-0</prefix>
    <stem>FW-WaBi</stem>
  </compatibility>

...

</compatibility-table>

And, of course, we may merge the 3 ones.

What do you think ?

Cheers,

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