Hedghog

Dealing with PUNCT nodes in interlinear glossing.

Still thinking about interlinear glossing for my language learning project. The leizig.js library is great but my use case isn’t really what the author had in mind. I really just need to display a unit consisting of the word as it appears in the text, the lemma for that word form, and (possibly) the part of speech. For academic linguistics purposes, what I have in mind is completely non-standard.

The other issue with leizig.js for my use case is that I need to be able to respond to click events on individual words so that they can be tagged, defined or otherwise worked with. It’s straightforward how I could apply CSS id attributes to word-level elements to support that functionality.

leipzig.js is a library for applying interlinear gloss to texts for linguistic analysis. In this post, I experiment a little with this libary to evaluate whether it would work for a little project of mine.

Starting a new devlog about Hedghog, a new language learning app and some thoughts about the interlinear display of lemmas.