Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 465.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:20:45 +0000
From: "Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak" <sobkow@amu.edu.pl>
Subject: Re: 15.460 rationale of e-text
Wendell Piez wrote:
> Even some ways that would give you broader range for exploration than the
serial
> alphabetic presentation of the book.
[...]
> This may be a bit extreme. We are still at the point where we are, for the
> most part, imitating what we do with print in our electronic efforts --
> read, peruse, look up. The capabilities of electronic interfaces to do new
> things, or make lighter work of old things, are still largely unexplored
I couldn't agree more.
For a few years now I have been working on a project designed to create a
Multi-Access Dictionary, one which will lay open for the learner/user _all_
the normally hidden or implicit information in a machine-readable
dictionary. Current EFL electronic dictionaries are still rather restricted
in terms of search types which they allow: whole-text, part-of-speech
filtering, slang/colloquial flags, one or two more access methods. This is
a tiny proportion of what is (easily) technically possible and
pedagogically/lexicographically desirable. For a short presentation of my
MAD project consult:
http://elex.amu.edu.pl/~sobkow/mad.htm
WS
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