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Creat phrases by chosing seprating words

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Jing Wang (Baldre)

there are some phrases not really always staying together, like pick something up, and I only want to creat a LingQ of “pick up”. And this problem is more deadly for the German separabale verbs(which are very commonly seprated and German learners cannot creat LingQ for them)

May 17, 2023

Matthew Lancellotti

If there were an edit button (for modifying the term itself) when creating a LingQ, it would not only be useful for this but also for other use cases.  For example with elisions, the computer wants to create a LingQ for "all'olio" for example but the user wants to create a LingQ for "olio".
As for separating words, the user could manually input a special separating character ∮ (there can be a button to type the character in) when they edit the term.  So for example the term can be "pick ∮ up".
When the computer scans for terms, it can allow for 1-3 words to appear in the middle.  This is possible with Regular Expressions or in some other way if it's being processed as a sequence of tokens.  So something like "pick the fruit up" would be recognized.  There is certainly a technical hurdle here but I also think it is doable with time and effort (I am a software engineer).
I think it should be done in this order.
Add support for editing a LingQ term upon creation.  (i.e. all'olio -> olio).  Difficulty: Easy
Add support for multi-token LingQ's if that doesn't already exist.  (i.e. pick up). Difficulty: Hard
Add support for separations (i.e. pick ∮ up term, pick the fruit up text). Difficulty: Hard
Well hope that helps in some way  :)

Mark Kaufmann

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Mark Kaufmann

Jing Wang (Baldre)Yes, this is something we should do. We don't yet have a great solution but it is in our plans.

Mohammad Gesrha

Mark KaufmannCould you please consider it as it was suggessted for a year now?

Mark Kaufmann

Mohammad Gesrha This is definitely still on our radar. Please be patient a little while longer.

Mohammad Gesrha

Mark Kaufmann i can‘t be Patient, i have to finish german study in 6 months 😅

Julian Kingman

Mark Kaufmann one idea would be to have an edit modal or something, where you can create the word selections yourself by selecting parts of the sentence. This would also be very useful for Chinese as well, where sometimes words are grouped when they shouldn't be, or ungrouped when they should be.