Hello,
I am writing to get some feedback/suggestion on an IGE grant proposal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/A_graphical_and_interactive_etymology_dictionary_based_on_Wiktionary>
I submitted to Wikimedia that might be of interest to the research
community.
I am working on an interactive visualization tool for etymological
relationships and I produced a demo of my interactive visualization
*etytree*:
http://www.epantaleo.com/2015/12/01/etymology-tree/
The aim of the application is to visualize - in one graph - the etymology
of all words deriving from the same ancestor. Users can expand/collapse
the tree to visualize what they are interested in. The textual part
attached to the graph can be easily translated in any language and the app
would become a multilingual resource. My idea is to use dbnary's
extraction-framework (for Wiktionary) and develop a (possibly) smart
pre-processing strategy to translate Wiktionary textual etymology into a
graph database of etymological relationships.
The database of etymological relationships will be available for the
community and can be used as a resource to study the history of languages,
how pronunciation evolved through time, and eventually how semantics
evolved through time.
The link to the grant proposal is
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/A_graphical_and_interactive_etym…
Feedback from the community is important to receive a grant from the
Wikimedia foundation so please leave a feedback there if you are interested
in the project.
Thanks a lot!
Ester Pantaleo