trevelyan Posted March 5, 2008 at 07:24 AM Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 at 07:24 AM What do people feel about switching the output of the "popup annotation" (the default output from adsotrans.com and the popups we see on newsinchinese.com) to a more comprehensive definition (something that includes all of the glosses in the database)? Right now Adso chooses the most likely definition/pos given its understanding of Chinese grammar. I'm not sure that most people notice this selectivity until the system actually gets something wrong.... The reason the system is built this way is that Adso aims to offer gist translation and other sorts of generic semantic analysis functionality. Being able to hone down a word to a single definition is much more useful for search/semantic/translation applications than just showing a list of possible definitions. I strongly believe that structuring data in a way that enables this is important for the ability of the open source community to innovate in the long-term. But maybe this is the wrong approach for data-display, and especially for a project that aims to make it easy for people to collaborate around language. I've noticed that a lot of users (especially new contributors) like to pack multiple definitions into the popup windows rather than add new ones. I usually edit these during the review process, but don't want people to feel disappointed if their edits "disappear" from one release to the next, especially if they aren't really gone, but merely restructured. Also, if people really WANT more comprehensive definitions when they use an annotator, it is easy enough to change the system and get Adso to produce that sort of output. It's actually much faster to do as well since this eliminates the hard work of grammatical disambiguation. Curious if anyone has any thoughts on this. Cross-posted on my blog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quest Posted March 6, 2008 at 01:03 AM Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 at 01:03 AM Maybe something they can click on to expand? scrollable. Potentially make it smarter by offering an option to correct the wrong translation and store the context and corrected definition in a self improving lookup database. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevelyan Posted March 6, 2008 at 05:06 AM Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 at 05:06 AM That seems to be the consensus on the blog too. Keep the system smart, but expand the range of ways people can interact with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooironic Posted March 6, 2008 at 07:04 AM Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 at 07:04 AM Of course you will need to include all synonyms/possible character combinations. After all, Chinese is such a context-dependent language, there is no way a computer could always get the word right. But yeah, a scrollable box/clickable expanding one would really give you the benefits of both worlds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ole Posted March 6, 2008 at 10:07 AM Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 at 10:07 AM Hi Trevelyan, In an expanded view I would like to see linkings for: 1.) syntactical wordtypes and frequency like: A. Sinica Search for the Frequency by Word(s) 2.) POS examples like: A. Sinica treesearch Ole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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