[kde-edu]: Could kvoctrain detect noun's gender automatically?

Peter Hedlund peter at peterandlinda.com
Mon Jan 17 18:08:27 CET 2005


Hi Aivo,

Aivo Jürgenson wrote:
> When I tried to enter some words in French to kvoctrain, I noticed that 
> one needs to specifically note, if the noun is a female, male or 
> neutral. Only those nouns, for which the gender is specified, will be 
> queried in the article training.
> 
> However, when describing the language, one indicates the articles, which 
> are female, male or neutral. So, it should be possible for kvoctrain to 
> automatically determine, if the word is a noun and which is the noun's 
> gender. For example, if I enter 'le directeur', kvoctrain should know 
> that this is a male noun? Or perhaps an example from German, if I enter 
> 'der Hund', kvoctrain should know that this is a male noun?

I'm sure you're right. This might possibly be a useful feature, but 
might also be error prone. It would definitely only work for a few 
languages. Please file a wishlist item at bugs.kde.org for future reference.

Thanks,
Peter



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