The context of a dictionary entry can be used to disambiguate words with the same spelling, but different pronunciations:
context
description/usage
after-noun
the word occurs after a noun
before-noun
the word occurs before a noun
date
writing a date (e.g. 31st Jan)
femanine
the person/thing is known to be female
masculine
the person/thing is known to be male (e.g. Dutch male name)
noun
the word is a noun
number
the word is a number
spelling
the word is a letter and is used when spelling out words
stressed
the word is emphasised
unstressed
the word is not emphasised
verb
the word is a verb
verb-past
the word is the past form of a verb
For example:
jan /dZ'an/ # [femanine], i.e. female name
jan /j'an/ [masculine] # e.g. Dutch male name
jan january [date]
i /'aI/
i 1 [number] # roman numeral
a /'eI/ [spelling] [stressed]
a /@/ [unstressed]
st street [after-noun] # e.g. Bridge St.
st saint [before-noun] # e.g. St. Helen
lead /l'i:d/ [verb]
lead /l'Ed/ [noun] [verb-past]
This can be used for part of speech tagging of other words that don't have ambiguous pronuncitions to help disambiguation.
In order to avoid duplicating context entries for different pronunciations and to keep the dictionary format stable, a special context dictionary will have the format:
word word@variant [context] ... [context] # optional comment
Here, variant is a natural number that refers to the given pronunciation context/form. The dictionary will have the following entries:
word word@default
word@1 ...
...
word@n ...
where default refers to the default pronunciation for the word (i.e. when no identifying context can be deduced). This is usually the most common form, or the most easily identified.
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The context of a dictionary entry can be used to disambiguate words with the same spelling, but different pronunciations:
after-nounbefore-noundate31st Jan)femaninemasculinenounnumberspellingstressedunstressedverbverb-pastFor example:
This can be used for part of speech tagging of other words that don't have ambiguous pronuncitions to help disambiguation.
In order to avoid duplicating context entries for different pronunciations and to keep the dictionary format stable, a special context dictionary will have the format:
Here, variant is a natural number that refers to the given pronunciation context/form. The dictionary will have the following entries:
where default refers to the default pronunciation for the word (i.e. when no identifying context can be deduced). This is usually the most common form, or the most easily identified.