guide-words-extractor

A script to obtain Guide Words from the dictionary

Done:

• Extract Dictionary GW
• Extract ORACC GW
• Bring Dictionary GW in accordance with ORACC GW:
  • strip all unnecessary information and punctuation marks which accompany the GW
  • strip "to" from verbs and preserve it in all other cases
  • check for generalised meaning
  • check for unknown meaning and expand "mng. unkn." abbreviation
  • change the position of question marks in case of the uncertain meaning

To be done:

• nominalise adjectives. If a lemma is an adjective, ORACC nominalises it. E.g., qardu[heroic one] instead of "heroic"
• meanings where single quotes are used instead of double quotes

Expected discrepancies:

• if a word is present in a volume of CAD that is more recent than CDA than ORACC uses the GW from CAD.
• ORACC lemmas use ʾ and eBL lemmas use '.
• ORACC glossary does not have homonym number.
• Some ORACC lemmas are forms eBL.

Usage

Run node index.js. words.json, oraccGlossary.json, and gloss-akk.json have to be in the working directory. The scripts will print some information and write resulting guide words to guide-words.csv.