dictionary dream (was [Re: finding the name of the displayed card of stack foo?] )

[Dar Scott]

I like the idea.

And I like the idea of how it can grow by explicit entries.  Maybe that can even be inferred; we can ask the NSA what people were looking for and what they found.  Uh, wait, I mean maybe all it takes is a click on a dictionary page that says, this is what I have been recently looking for.  

Another idea is to find a an associative list some place.  

Even with print indexes of some other century, I thought entries should include more than just product jargon, but also common words and even competitors' jargon.

I think it would be nice to have this and structured browsing.  Climbing into a tree of categories with only ten things listed near the leaves might help.

Dar


On Jun 16, 2013, at 5:53 AM, Jacques Hausser wrote:

> Yes, that's a problem when intuition doesn't correspond to the index of the dictionary… it would be interesting to develop a "maybe you're thinking of…" algorithm for the dictionary ( without  clogging the language with synonyms), for example by redirecting toward "real" commands such searches as "fill field "xxx" with…", "display myText in field…", "erase line 1 of field "xxx" ", and so on. It could be an online process contributed by the users: I was trying to find: (intuitive command) and finally discovered it was: (existing command).
> Unfortunately that's far, far over my technical competences to start something like that. It's probably a big overlap with "openLanguage" anyway.
> 
> Jacques
> 
> Le 16 juin 2013 à 02:03, "Dr. Hawkins" <dochawk at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Mark Schonewille
>> <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> put the short name of the current card of stack "foo"
>> 
>> Ahh.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Duh.
>> 
>> I went through front, current, top, visible . . .
>> 
>> 
>> 
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