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| "title": "Waldayu and Waldayu Mobile: Modern digital dictionary interfaces for endangered languages", |
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| "abstract": "We introduce Waldayu and Waldayu Mobile, web and mobile front-ends for endangered language dictionaries. The Waldayu products are designed with the needs of novice users in mind-both novices in the language and technological novices-and work in tandem with existing lexicographic databases. We discuss some of the unique problems that endangeredlanguage dictionary software products face, and detail the choices we made in addressing them.", |
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| "text": "We introduce Waldayu and Waldayu Mobile, web and mobile front-ends for endangered language dictionaries. The Waldayu products are designed with the needs of novice users in mind-both novices in the language and technological novices-and work in tandem with existing lexicographic databases. We discuss some of the unique problems that endangeredlanguage dictionary software products face, and detail the choices we made in addressing them.", |
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| "text": "Lexicographers have noted that with the increase in access to digital technology, \"lexicography is clearly at a turning point in its history\" (Granger and Paquot, 2012) . While the changes that technology presents to lexicography are relevant to non-endangered languages as well, there exists a unique set of challenges in developing lexicographic materials for endangered languages in particular. We identify and address two of these fundamental and perennial difficulties.", |
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| "text": "(and likely elsewhere), there are relatively few potential users who are both fluent in the language and trained in a systematic orthography. Many users are students who have not yet achieved fluency in the language they are searching.", |
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| "text": "2. Lexicographic efforts have, in many communities, taken place over generations by various scholars, using a variety of formats, orthographies, and assumptions, leading to data sets that are often very heterogeneous.", |
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| "text": "To address these issues, we have developed Waldayu and Waldayu Mobile. Waldayu is an orthographically-aware dictionary front-end with built-in approximate search, and a plugin architecture to allow it to operate with a variety of dictionary formats, from the output of advanced back-ends like TLex (Joffe and de Schryver, 2004) , to semistructured HTML like online word lists, to simple word/definition spreadsheets. Waldayu Mobile is a mobile implementation of Waldayu which is compatible with both Android and iOS devices.", |
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| "text": "Waldayu and Waldayu Mobile were originally developed to provide online and mobile interfaces to a forthcoming Gitksan (Tsimshianic) e-dictionary, but are intended to be language-neutral and have since been expanded to St'at'imcets (Salish), Nuuchah-nulth (Wakashan), Sliammon (Salish), Squamish (Salish), Thangmi (Sino-Tibetan), and Cayuga (Iroquoian).", |
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| "text": "In Section 3, we discuss some of the user experience principles we have adopted, and in Section 4 discuss our challenges and solutions in adapting these to mobile devices. In Section 5, we discuss our implementation of approximate search.", |
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| "text": "Waldayu is primarily intended as a front-end solution to the perennial \"Dictionary problem\": that dictionaries are fundamentally a language-learning tool but require a certain level -sometimes an advanced level -of language knowledge to use in the first place. This is particularly apparent in our field context, the North American Pacific Northwest, where the sheer phonological and morphological complexity of the languages makes traditional print dictionary use particularly difficult (Maxwell and Poser, 2004) .", |
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| "text": "We can observe this when, to give a real-life example, a user is trying to look up the word for \"coyote\" (sn ' k ' yep) in Thompson's monumental print dictionary of N\u0142ePkepmxc\u00edn (Thompson, 1996) . To successfully find this word, the user must know that it is alphabetized under ' k rather than s or n (which are prefixes/proclitics) and that ' k and ' y are distinct from k and y for the purposes of collation. With thousands of nouns starting with s and about ten phonemes that might be confused with k (both pan-Salishan traits), most words in the dictionary cannot easily be found by novice users. This is not a specific criticism of Thompson's lexicographic choices; complex languages require the lexicographer to make difficult decisions about orthography, morphology, morphophonology, and collation, and any decision they make about these will pose difficulty for some segment of novice users.", |
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| "text": "However, modern technology -particularly approximate search -allows us a way to meet the user halfway, by letting the system itself be aware of complications (prefixes/proclitics, easily-confused sounds, orthographic differ-ence, etc.) that novices have yet to master.", |
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| "text": "Waldayu is not, however, intended to be a replacement for a mature, collaborative lexicographic software solution such as TLex, Kamusi (Benjamin and Radetzky, 2014) , or the Online Linguistic Database (Dunham, 2014) . Most lexicographic teams we have encountered already have preferred back-ends, file formats, and workflows; solving the \"dictionary problem\" for users should not require teams to abandon solutions into which they have already invested time, effort, and resources. Rather, Waldayu and Waldayu Mobile are intended to serve as a lightweight, unclutttered online front-end for novice users, while expert users can make use of more advanced functionality offered by a mature lexicographic database.", |
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| "text": "There are five user experience principles that we attempted to make consistent throughout both products, so as to remove barriers for novice users who may not be familiar with online dictionaries, or online interfaces in general.", |
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| "text": "Each control (button, search box, link, etc.) has only a single function, and no controls change their behaviour depending on the settings of other controls. For example, there is no Gitksan-English/English-Gitksan toggle that changes the behaviour of the search box; this convention, although ubiquitous in online bilingual dictionaries, is a frequent source of user error even for experienced users.", |
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| "text": "Rather, Waldayu utilizes a double search bar, in which user input in the left search box searches the primary language (e.g., Gitksan) while the left search box searches in the secondary language (e.g., English). 1 This parallels the two most frequent user tasks, using English as a query language to find an entry in Figure 1 : Screenshot of Waldayu as the Gitksan/English Online Dictionary Figure 2 : Reduced Waldayu control layout embedded at the top of each page a target language dictionary, and using a target language as a query language to find an English definition.", |
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| "text": "In addition to the above, we try to avoid requiring other \"two step\" user inputs (e.g., typing a query and then hitting \"search\"). Instead, we attempt to provide user inputs with immediate feedback\u00e0 la Google Instant search or other \"AJAX\"-style client and server interfaces (although as noted in Section 3.5, Waldayu does not in fact have a client-server architecture).", |
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| "text": "In both controls and presentation, consistent visual metaphors are maintained. We borrow the fundamental metaphor from the FirstVoices online word lists (First Peoples' Cultural Council, 2009) -the online interface most familiar to our users -that the primary language (e.g., Gitksan) is always in the left column, and the secondary language (e.g., English) is always in the right column. This metaphor is maintained in the search interface (as seen in Fig. 1 , the left search box searches the primary language, the right search box searches the secondary language), in browsing interfaces like the random word page (Fig. 3) , and in entry pages (with primary language keywords and examples on the left, definitions and commentary on the right).", |
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| "text": "This horizontal visual metaphor is augmented by a colour scheme that presents the target language as green-blue (#066) and English as dark gray (#333); like other metaphors, these colours are preserved throughout the site. The major controls and links are present on every page, and work the same way on each page. The interface of the start page (a horizontal bar with links to free browsing, random browsing, etc., the page title, and the dual search bar) is embedded (with a reduced layout, as seen in Fig. 2 ) and fully functional at the top of every page. This is intended to make it essentially impossible to \"get lost\" within the site; there is no question of how to return to the site's core functionality because every page has that functionality.", |
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| "text": "Similarly, maintaining Waldayu's horizontal metaphor for search bars in Waldayu Mobile would force search bars to be too small (i.e., less than 150px wide) for a positive mobile user experience. The option to force users to turn their devices and search with a 'landscape' (horizontal) orientation was also not preferred because it would result in forfeiting being able to visualize results as queries are searched. This would mean that users would have to search with a horizontal orientation, and view results either by scrolling or switching to a vertical orientation which would go against our UX principles in Section 3.", |
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| "text": "Initially, two solutions were created. The first kept both search bars and dynamically changed their widths depending on whether a user tapped the left or right search bar. However, this still proved to limit the size of the search bar too severely.", |
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| "text": "The second solution was to use only a single search bar and a language selector; while this does not achieve the principle in Section 3.1, we hypothesized that increased attention to the visual metaphors in Section 3.3 might alleviate the difficulties this interface can cause. The language-selection radio buttons preserved the aforementioned horizontal metaphor (L1 on the left, L2 on the right) and dynamically changed the colour scheme of the search box to either the L1 or L2 colour.", |
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| "text": "While this solved the issues related to screen size, user testing revealed difficulties with the \"two step\" process, in which users first need to first consider what type of search they wished to perform and then select a button, which in turn changes the behaviour of the search bar. Likely, this is a result of the habituation to Google-style search bars where users can type any sort of query and expect accurate and relevant results.", |
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| "text": "Ultimately, this led us to develop a single search bar which searches the query term in both languages. The L1 and L2 results are presented together (still preserving the aforementioned visual metaphors), but with additional highlighting indicating, for each result, whether the match is on the L1 side or the L2 side. This is seen below in Figure 5 . In this section, we consider the implementation of approximate search within Waldayu and Waldayu Mobile.", |
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| "text": "There are four primary reasons for why an approximate search is not simply a convenient feature for endangered language dictionaries, but a necessary one.", |
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| "text": "1. Some users, even if they can distinguish all the phonemes of the language (e.g., /k/ vs. /q/), do not always know the orthographic convention used to encode this difference.", |
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| "text": "2. Other users -particularly students -may know the orthographic convention but be unable to reliably discern certain phonological differences in their target language, resulting in systematic and predictable errors in spelling.", |
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| "text": "3. Many users will not have easy access to a keyboard which is able to type the required characters, whether for lack of a language-specific keyboard, difficulty with keyboard installation, or because they are using a mobile device. 3 4. Many North American Indigenous languages have multiple orthographies, sometimes historical, but sometimes in current competition with each other. Different regions, generations, scholars, and schools have produced materials using different orthographic conventions, and users may have learned any of them, or may be attempting to enter data from material written in a different orthography.", |
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| "text": "Sometimes these issues are compounded, in that a user might type either \"kl\" or \"tl\" as an approximation of /\u0148/. Sometimes, though, the correct sequence of characters is perfectly valid using a standard English keyboard, but the user has difficulty hearing the distinction, Figure 6 : Gitksan-English Online Dictionary returning noosik and naasik' as possible matches to user query nosek.", |
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| "text": "as is the case with glottalized resonants (e.g. 'w vs w) in many languages of the Pacific Northwest.", |
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| "text": "To address these issues, we implemented several approximate search algorithms. The most important criterion -aside from being fast enough to return results to users in a reasonable amount of time -was that this algorithm should either not require parameterization for a particular language, or should be able to be parameterized by a nonprogrammer (so that lexicographers can adapt the Waldayu software to a new language without hiring a programmer or having to contact the developers). 4 Ideally, a lexicographer should be able to adapt Waldayu using only familiar consumer software (like a spreadsheet program) rather than modifying the code or composing a structured data format directly.", |
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| "text": "We began with a simple Levenshtein distance algorithm (Levenshtein, 1966) , in which each word is compared to the user query and ranked according to the number of singleletter edits needed to change the query into the word. This comparison has the benefit that it can be expressed as a finite-state automaton (Schulz and Mihov, 2002) and, after construction of the automaton itself, run in linear time over the length of the query in characters, making search results nearly instantaneous re-gardless of the size of the dictionary. Simple Levenshtein distance, however, is insufficiently discriminative to give useful results to users; for example, the Gitksan word for tree, gan (/Gan/), sounds similar to English \"gun\", but given the query gun, an unweighted Levenshtein algorithm has no reason to order the result gan above the result din, since these both differ from \"gun\" by two edits.", |
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| "text": "To address this, we then parameterized edit costs such that more similar and frequentlyconfused characters (g and g, a and u) accrue a lesser penalty, thereby ranking more-similar words higher, along the lines of Needleman and Wunsch (1970), Kondrak (2000) , or Rytting et al. (2011). 5 Users could parameterize these penalties using a simple spreadsheet, in which they identified classes of similar sounds and chose [0.0-1.0] penalties within these classes.", |
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| "text": "While this approach proved adequate for our sample dictionaries, it did not scale well to larger dictionaries, leading to inappropriately long search times in practice, particularly on mobile devices. 6 Searching a five-letter word in a dictionary of about 9,000 words took up to 9 seconds on an iPhone 4.", |
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| "text": "The development of Waldayu and Waldayu Mobile was supported by the SSHRC Insight Grant 435-2016-1694, 'Enhancing Lexical Resources for BC First Nations Languages'. Finally, we would also like to acknowledge our presence on unceded Coast Salish territory, where the majority of this work was inspired, created, and written about.", |
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