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Table 18: Dictionary Priorities
Priority Description Comments
1 The entry has precedence over any
other rules (internal rules in the software
or longer main dictionary expressions).
Main dictionary homographs are not
preserved
2 The entry has precedence over longer
expressions from the main dictionary,
but not over grammatical words (the
ones only ruled out by the priority 1).
3 The entry has no precedence over
longer expressions in the main dictionary
nor over grammatical rules. Homographs
from the main dictionary are not
preserved.
Lets you guarantee that a UD entry will
match. Use higher priority carefully,
since it can degrade the main translation
by hiding grammatical words, common
expressions, or common homographs.
For example, adding “a can” in a UD
degrades any sentence containing the
modal “can”.
4
5
6
The entry has no precedence over
longer expressions or grammatical rules
and homographs from main dictionary
are preserved.
7 The entry will fire only if there is no such
entry in the main dictionary.
Coding entry with this priority ensure not
to degrade normal translation, and will
only impact not found words.
8 The entry will not fire but will show as
alternative meaning during translation
Useful for building an alternative-
meanings dictionary without degrading
core-translation quality.
9 The entry will not be fired. Used for “lookup operator find”
dictionary tasks. See Using Textual
Lookup Operators on page 136.