The english extractor should now correctly extract examples and citations (along with references) from the English Language Edition. Such examples where initially extracted for the French Edition and we will try to extend such extraction for all other editions.
The English extractor has recently been extended to handle Thesaurus entries. This leads to more lexico-semantic relations. However, such relations originates and leads to Pages rather than to LexicalEntries. This shortcoming will be handled during data enhancement (still to come). Happy Linking !
Read MoreEnglish extraction has been improved slightly. More part of speeches are now extracted (mainly affixes, proverbs, …), Extracted data is now more precisely typed and described, using lexinfo vocabulary, Additionally, All lexical entries are now explicitly typed as LexicalEntry while they were previously typed as lemon:Word or lemon:Phrase or lemon:Adjective (all of which are sub classes of lemon:LexicalEntry).
Read MoreDuring the French “TALN” workshop, several French researchers asked me if I could add usage examples in the extracted data. This has been done in French, with the addition of a new property (named dbnary:exampleSource) that gives the source of the example when available. The French extractor still shows some problems when examples are splitter on several lines using te HTML br tag, but this is a minor issue (it appears a than sands times on a set of more than 252 thousands usage examples).
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