I am entering a lot of content from the literature that has inflected nouns and verbs into my inflections dictionary which is linked to the regular dictionary via a pointer. The dictionary structure is as follows (for a noun):
Since I am entering this content directly into the dictionary and not into a corpus document first, it is possible that there won't be anything in the corpus that comes up in a search for such a possessed or inflected form of a given noun or verb.
And I don't have time or any desire to deal with any kind of sense pointing mechanism where for each inflected form, I have a sense.. So I am considering putting a <gloss> in each form which would solve this issue. So the entry above would be:
I am entering a lot of content from the literature that has inflected nouns and verbs into my inflections dictionary which is linked to the regular dictionary via a pointer. The dictionary structure is as follows (for a noun):
Since I am entering this content directly into the dictionary and not into a corpus document first, it is possible that there won't be anything in the corpus that comes up in a search for such a possessed or inflected form of a given noun or verb.
And I don't have time or any desire to deal with any kind of sense pointing mechanism where for each inflected form, I have a sense.. So I am considering putting a
<gloss>
in each form which would solve this issue. So the entry above would be:I know this is not kosher, but it is actually allowed and in the context of a dictionary specifically for inflected forms, it makes sense..