Thanks Robert. When I had the idea of writing etytree I did some literature research and I saw this work. I thought I could integrate a d3.js visualization with this etymology extraction tool.
Unfortunately though, the software behind the Etymological WordNet developed at Stanford is not available - I contacted the author, he also said he is anyways planning on rewriting and improving the code.
Both the author of that work and people involved in the WordNet project were enthusiastic about the etytree idea and were supportive.
Best, Ester
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 1:42 AM, Robert West west@cs.stanford.edu wrote:
Hi Ester,
This might be a relevant resource for you: http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~demelo/etymwn/
Bob
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 7:32 AM, Ester Pantaleo esterpantaleo@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I am writing to get some feedback/suggestion on an IGE grant proposal 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_etymo...
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
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