Help:List of annotations

General annotations

The following annotations are available for all DMs and expressions. In addition to that, there are also language specific classes specific annotations (see below).

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Annotations at a DefinedMeaning level

These annotations are semantic annotations. They depend on the meaning of the word, not on the language. For example, an image representing a word can also be used for all translations.

• Relations between DMs
  • Antonyms
  • Hypernyms and hyponyms
  • Meronyms and holonyms
• Topic
• Commons category
• Image from Commons
• Wikidata ID - used to provide links to Wikipedia.

Annotations at a Syntrans level

These annotations are lexical annotations. They are about the word itself and the language, rather than about the meaning of the word.

• Contextual annotations
  • Example sentence

    Used to illustrate the proper use of an expression in a sentence.

  • Usage
• Grammatical annotations
  • Gender

    Indicates whether a word is a masculine, feminine, neuter, etc. Genders are different in different languages.

  • Grammatical property
  • Part of speech

    Indicates whether a word is a noun, a verb, an adjective, etc. Parts of speech are different in different languages.

• Pronunciation annotations
  • Hyphenation
  • International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
• Etymology

Language specific annotations

All language specific annotations are at SynTrans level.

English

• Area - indicates where a particular word is used. e.g. Australia, New-Zealand, United Kingdom, United States.

Hindi

• IAST (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration)

Japanese

• revised Hepburn romanization
• Hiragana (indicates the reading of a kanji with Hiragana characters)
• Katakana (indicates the reading of a kanji with Katakana characters)

Mandarin

• pinyin

Class specific annotations

City

• country: the country where the city is located.

  e.g. "France" for the city "Paris"

• county: the state/county/province where the city is located
• demonym: what the people living in the city are called
• former name: the former name(s) of the city

  e.g. "Leningrad" and "Petrograd" for the city "Saint Petersburg"

• Geonames ID ????
• is situated at the: the name of the river(s) that flow through the city, if any

  e.g. "Seine" for the city "Paris"

• latitude
• longitude