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Show gender and plural forms for German #78

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dpriskorn opened this issue Aug 18, 2021 · 4 comments
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Show gender and plural forms for German #78

dpriskorn opened this issue Aug 18, 2021 · 4 comments

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@dpriskorn
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"another issue is that in german, the meaning depends on the gender and plural forms, but those aren't shown (as far as I know)" from Nikki in the tg chat.

We should make it easy for the user to decide whether it is a match or not.

I suggest disabling German until this is fixed to avoid garbage edits.
@Nudin WDYT?

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Nudin commented Aug 18, 2021

The gender is shown (even twice in German). There are imho only very few words that have identical singular form and identical genus and category, but different plural forms. In (almost) all languages, there are words there are words that have the identical stem. English is no different there. People should therefore always think on whether that might be the case for a word. Disabling seems quite harsh, since then it would make sense to disable the tool all together. (Which some people do suggest)
The most reasonable change to improve this is by querying for words where multiple lexemes have the same lemma, language, genus and category. And then add a warning for them.

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Nudin commented Aug 18, 2021

Actually, the current querry checks for homographs and excludes all words that have a homograph marked. In the past I had a querry to search for homographs that were not marked as such and fixed them regularly. Probably none is doing this now anymore and therefore there are more unmarked homographs…

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Nudin commented Aug 18, 2021

Another thing that might help a bit is to make the genus mandatory:

OPTIONAL { ?lexeme wdt:P5185 ?genus. } .

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Nudin commented Aug 18, 2021

There are currently 8 such words: https://w.wiki/3vCr

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