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Plains Cree Intelligent Dictionary
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Choosing MD-only as source results in empty entries #1046

Closed aarppe closed 2 years ago

aarppe commented 2 years ago

With certain searches, such as 'eradicate', some of the results show a header but no other information, in particular a definition, e.g.

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When then searching with 'manisikanis', one gets the same empty result - it is analyzed as a diminutive, which is getting me to think whether that might be the source of the issue:

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... as the pre-diminutive form does have an occurrence in MD, cf.

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aarppe commented 2 years ago

Later on, I realized that it appears that what is needed is pressing ENTER at the end of the search string - which is a divergence from earlier behavior where results are provided as the string is being typed, not requiring a final ENTER.

aarppe commented 2 years ago

@nienna73 Hasn't this been fixed?

nienna73 commented 2 years ago

These are the full results for this wordform (ignore the "True"):

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What is the expected behaviour here when selecting MD only? Since there are no definitions for this wordform in MD, should it not appear at all? There are definitions for the uninflected wordform, though, so should those definitions still appear?

nienna73 commented 2 years ago

This is how I would expect this to behave:

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Is this correct?

aarppe commented 2 years ago

Yes, if you choose MD only, then for manisikanis you shouldn't see 'mower, binder, scythe'.

But when you search manêsihkan, which is the delayed imperative of manêsiw, then with the MD-only option you should see the one English definition 'He is in need of something.'

aarppe commented 2 years ago

As a general note, I'd think that if our analyzer can find a lemma that exists in MD (even if that is through derivational analysis as in the case of manisikanis -> manisikan), then the lemma should be shown.

Of course, in this particular case there would not be a definition for the actual diminutive in MD.