Re: [Aramorph-users] XML tables

[Pierrick Brihaye]

Hi,

Ahmed El-dawy wrote:

>   How are you? Hope you are fine. I don't know why you are not
> responding to any mails

... because I'm just back from holidays :-)

> and I hope you are allright.

I am all right, thank you.

So... a few (quick) notes about what you've sent :

Prefixes :

<entry>
  <unvocalized>f</unvocalized>
  <vocalized>fa</vocalized>
  <morphological-category>Pref-Wa</morphological-category>
  <glosses>
   <gloss>and;so</gloss>
  </glosses>
  <grammatical-categories>
   <grammatical-category>fa/CONJ</grammatical-category>
  </grammatical-categories>
 </entry>

Here, you have *two* glosses :
<gloss>and</gloss>
<gloss>so<gloss>

Regarding :
  <grammatical-categories>
   <grammatical-category>>bi/PREP</grammatical-category>
  </grammatical-categories>

... it is not well-formed XML (because of the ">" character that must be 
escaped).

Stems :

<root materila="Ab">
is inconsistent with :
<!ATTLIST root material CDATA #REQUIRED>

Furthermore, I sugget you to be consistent with what is in the prefix 
dictionary (I mean, share the document types as much as possible) :

So, I'd prefer

<entry root="Ab">

(mark the "root" attributes as required).

<!ATTLIST lemma lemma-id CDATA #REQUIRED>

an id attribute hould be enough.

Well, that all for my *quick* answer, but remember that the docitionary 
format may be complex (see : 
http://www.nongnu.org/aramorph/english/dictionaries.html).

>   Till now I have transformed all dictionaries and tables to XML and
> also translated them to Arabic. 

Is your XML valid ? Given the code above, it is doubtful...

> I have also made an
> XMLDictionaryHandler which parses XML tables, using digester from
> Jakarta commons, and loads them into memory.

What does the digester adds to a sandart XML parser ?

>   There's a small problem is that I have changed some code in the
> Solution and other classes which romanize words. Now we don't have to
> romanize words because dictionaries are Arabic.

Yes :-) That was in the TODO list.

 The problem is that
> InMemoryDictionaryHandler will not work unless it romanizes the input
> text before searching dictionaries.
>   If you need the new changes please let me know, and I will send them ASAP.

You patch will be welcomed.

Cheers,

--
Pierrick Brihaye, informaticien
Service régional de l'Inventaire
DRAC Bretagne
mailto:address@hidden
+33 (0)2 99 29 67 78