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Dealing with PUNCT nodes in interlinear glossing.

Still thinking about interlinear glossing for my language learning project. The leizig.js library is great but my use case isn’t really what the author had in mind. I really just need to display a unit consisting of the word as it appears in the text, the lemma for that word form, and (possibly) the part of speech. For academic linguistics purposes, what I have in mind is completely non-standard. The other issue with leizig.

leipzig.js is a library for applying interlinear gloss to texts for linguistic analysis. In this post, I experiment a little with this libary to evaluate whether it would work for a little project of mine.

Starting a new devlog about Hedghog, a new language learning app and some thoughts about the interlinear display of lemmas.

W3schools.com has a CSS library that’s quite nice. I often use Bootstrap; but I like some of the visual features here better. For example, I like their tags because they have more flexible use of colour. If you want to fetch from a Python dictionary, but you need a default value, this is how you do it: upos_badge = {'noun': 'lime','verb': 'amber', 'adv': 'blue',} badge_class_postfix = upos_badge.get(value.lower(), 'light-grey') I recently learned about DeepL as an alternative to Google Translate.

I wrote a piece previously about using JavaScript in Anki cards. Although I haven’t found many uses for employing this idea, it does come up from time-to-time including a recent use-case I’m writing about now. After downloading a popular French frequency list deck for my daughter to use, I noticed that it omits the gender of nouns in the French prompt. In school, I was always taught to memorize the gender along with the noun.

[N.B. 2016-03-26 Nathan Ifill pointed out that it is possible to use Anki’s built-in conditional replacement feature to do what I’m illustrating. I’ll have to work on another example!] Anki is a widely-used flashcard application. If you’re learning a foreign language and you’re not using Anki, you should be. If you are using Anki and are picky about the appearance of the cards, you should know that JavaScript can be used in the card template.