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Non-AI Meteor-powered language learning tool
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Support for plural #21

Open squallstar opened 8 years ago

squallstar commented 8 years ago

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jepurcell commented 8 years ago

What about a "plural-object" word type? Then new sets of phrases would have to be added with formatting such as "There are {plural-object}.", "Are these {plural-object}?" etc.

squallstar commented 8 years ago

That would work, though I was thinking of something more automatic, like specifing some rules and have regular expressions to parse the phrase and substitute words in the English phrase with their plural when a word is plural. I'll think about a solution over the Christmas holidays :)

squallstar commented 8 years ago

This would also work:

given type: {{object plural}} There are some {{object plural}}.

(Since subtypes can already be defined by a space) — anyway, I want to try to build a better solution to handle singular and plural with the same word/phrase so there's not redundant elements.

jepurcell commented 8 years ago

Seems like you need a way to represent singular and plural determiners and verbs in order to make the following types of associations: this, these -> この that, those -> その is, are -> no direct mapping but possibly ある in some cases

The case of determiners might have a full mapping. I'm not sure if there are consistent mappings beyond that but I can try to see if anything like this exists since it's interesting.

squallstar commented 8 years ago

Thanks for the advice, I'll write out all the mappings to see whether we can build a nice mechanism for plurals or it's safer to just have different sentences and words.

On Sun, 27 Dec 2015, 01:20 jepurcell notifications@github.com wrote:

Seems like you need a way to represent singular and plural determiners and verbs in order to make the following types of associations: this, these -> この that, those -> その is, are -> no direct mapping but possibly ある in some cases

The case of determiners might have a full mapping. I'm not sure if there are consistent mappings beyond that but I can try to see if anything like this exists since it's interesting.

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