Appendix

Appendix

Levels of comments

Lift basically has three levels of "XML structure"

1. Entries
2. Meanings (senses)
3. Example Sentences

In order to attach comments to elements that are within the structure we will utilize a strategy for comments that identifies the XML Level and then a string that identifies the actual sub element followed by the text string of that element instance.

Example: if there was a lexical item that was bow you might have 3 senses bow (to bow down to someone (meaning 1), a bow and arrow (meaning 2)) meaning 1 is a verb and meaning 2 is a noun. We would allow someone to put a comment on the part of speech of meaning 2. In order to do this we would record in the comment header that it was a comment on bow->meaning 2->noun.

The current interface allows comments on the following:

• an entry
• a meaning
• a part of speech for a meaning
• the set of domains that used to categorize the meaning
• an example scentence
• an example translation