dictionaryfeed

This is awesome! Unfortunately, I didn't get today's word though. Anyone get it? :)

If you happen to see this, feel free to ignore this entire post. :)

This was just for fun to show people how to post to HackerNews. I hope that you all have a great day! :)

Thank you very much for the comment and helpful feedback. :)

I tried posting several months ago, but a lovely HN user encouraged me to post again with a different title / format. Thank you!

Note: This is a free app and I do not profit from it. Over 16,000 translations are crowdsourced from users.

Hi there!! Thanks for the message. Your solution sounds pretty neat, but there are a few things that make me a little bit skeptical of your comment. Would be happy to discuss and learn more. :)

What is this? :)

Thanks also for pointing out the word querulous! I don't think that the first tree that Treegle generates is so great. You have to click querulous a few times to get better trees. :)

Cool!! Thank you very much for sharing!! I actually never heard of Wordo until now. Do you work with Wordo? If so, wanta collaborate? :)

Thank you for your feedback! Yes, that is an issue that I've heard many times. I've tried to solve it many different ways.

The issue is that the definition has to be readable while also conveying that the words are clickable without just adding a comment that says all these words are clickable.

I found that making some of the words look like buttons often conveys that those words are clickable and as you accidentally hover over other words, you detect that all of them are clickable.

Any ideas on how to solve this issue are greatly appreciated! If you would ever like to chat about this, please let me know. Hope that you have a great day!

Thank you very much for the follow-up reply in regards to this! The worst definition that I've found is if you search the word "hello".

However, I actually like the first definition of the word "word" quite a bit. This demonstrates that there are differences from person to person.

Bringing this difference to attention, you're right, it would make sense if there was a button to click to just expand all of the definition at once.

Further, when a user selects one of them, I could record that data and incorporate user's preference of definition into my statistical analysis to provide better definitions and better orderings.

I really appreciate your feedback and if you would ever like to discuss further, please let me know! :)

Thank you very much for the feedback!

So I actually talked with a dictionary expert that was a developer for WordNet. He told me that he spent tons of time trying to determine which definition is the right one. He came to the conclusion that dictionary authors quite often disagree on the ordering of definitions and that it is a lost cause to try to rank definitions.

I disagreed with him though. I think that definition form, word usage within the definition, and definition popularity can all contribute to selecting a "right one". That's why I applied statistical techniques to rank the definitions and reorder them to hopefully put the "right one" first.

Sadly, it seems that I didn't do such a great job for you with the word "quarrel".

Feedback noted as this will help when I start collecting data from users and make a push to improve my statistical analysis.

Thank you again and please let me know if you would like to discuss this further with me. Hope all is well. :)

Thank you again! I really appreciate all of your thoughtful feedback.

Yeah, one way of measuring connectivity is counting how many definitions that a word appears in. Also, yeah, sometimes there are text artifacts in definitions and words, phrases, or abbreviations that don't add any value to the definition.

From research that I've done, this happens in online dictionaries (not often, but occasionally). I've done a lot of work to clean up the definitions in my dictionary and provide the top ranking definitions first, but some artifacts still slip through the cracks.

I really appreciate all of your great feedback and welcome any comments or discussion anytime! :)

I used Online Plain Text English Dictionary. It's public domain and based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). I had to do quite a bit of cleaning and statistics to improve the definition formatting and ordering.

If you're interested in dictionaries and would like to chat sometime, please send me a message. I would love to. :)

Thank you so much for the kind comment! I really appreciate it. Yes, it is fun to just keep clicking and see where it goes.

I actually did some ranking to measure the connectivity of words in the dictionary that I used. I made this little word cloud to show off the most highly connective non-trivial words: https://imgur.com/iqJ1Iwb