Kirrkirr: A Java-based visualisation tool for XML dictionaries of Australian Languages

19/10/99


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Kirrkirr: A Java-based visualisation tool for XML dictionaries of Australian Languages

Project Objectives

Talk Outline

Research Program: Lexicon

Research: Computational Lexicography

MRD Structure

Initial focus: Warlpiri

Educational goals

Target user community

Kirrkirr: A Warlpiri dictionary browser

Overview

Kirrkirr Screen Shot

The lexical database

XML

Alternative: a standard database

Alternative: Object Databases

XML database

XQL - Potential

XML indexing - challenges

XML Indexing - solutions

Example

Kirrkirr Index Processing

Visualisation of dictionary information

Previous work

Previous work (2)

Graph-based visualisation

Perils of Visualisation

Graph-based visualisation

Educational advantages

Kirrkirr network display

Kirrkirr network display

Formatted dictionary entries

Formatted dictionary entries

Rich typology of link types

Browsing

Other components

User study

A positive anecdote

Conclusions

Conclusions (cont.)

Links

Kirrkirr: A Java-based visualisation tool for XML dictionaries of Australian Languages

Author: Kevin Jansz

Email: kjansz@cs.usyd.edu.au

Home Page: http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~kjansz/index.html

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