[Xerte] Re: Dictionary Web Service

[Dave Burnett]

wikiglossary.org?




> From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 11:19:19 +0000
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Dictionary Web Service
> 
> Like I said, it sounds like one of those beautifully simple ideas that if no one else has done we ought to do. It would fit well with the whole xpert / open Nottingham agenda.
> 
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fred Riley
> Sent: 03 February 2011 10:54
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Dictionary Web Service
> 
> > I looked at it and could parse the page easily enough, I'm just not
> > sure it's quite what I'm after: the Glossary I have in mind is not
> > quite the same thing as a dictionary. In the past I've made Glossaries
> > for pieces of courseware, and the problem is they are all separate / in
> > different formats etc. One *big* glossary that all things could call on
> > might be really useful.
> 
> Yes, I can see that, though I reckon you'll not be able to find one. Essentially, a glossary is a stripped-down dictionary, so that you purely get the definition, not grammatical or entomological or usage stuff. Unfortunately, there's not much call for something so stripped-down for general vocabulary so you'll be lucky to find a 'glossary of everything' I reckon. There are glossaries for specific subjects (eg Jargon dictionary, Glossary of linguistic terms, Economics glossary) but they often don't exist in machine-readable form. 
> 
> I'll have a further hunt as it's an intriguing problem. It might be worth getting in touch with someone in the language centre.
> 
> I understand your problem. E-learning resources that we've created often have glossary terms written by teachers, which runs into the problem of different teachers defining the same term differently, so a 'definitive' glossary would be useful.  But then, that's what a dictionary is supposed to be ;)
> 
> Fred
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