Instruction Manual

User’s Guide SYSTRAN 5.0 136
To sort language columns:
1. With the appropriate UD open, click the View menu.
2. Point to Sort language columns and click the appropriate command:
 Content sorts the column alphabetically by content.
 Content and category sorts the column alphabetically by content and
category.
 Headword sorts the column alphabetically by headword.
 Duplicate checking sorts the column by duplicate entries.
Marking Headwords
Using Mark Headwords on the View menu, you can see, after the current entry is
coded, which part of the word has been analyzed as the main word (headword) of the
expression. Examples include nut in lug nut, Library in Library of Congress, and day
in red letter day.
To mark headwords:
1. With the appropriate UD open, click the entry whose noun is to be
designated as a headword.
2. On the View menu, click Mark Headwords.
Using Textual Lookup Operators
Lookup operators are an advanced coding feature that extends the power of
dictionaries beyond classical terminological entries. Lookup operators provide a
reference to a complex entity (numerical for instance) included within a UD or a
normalization entry. They consist of numeric, URL, and FIND operators (see table
below). These operators fall into two categories:
• Simple: simple operators require no parameter.
• Complex: complex operators require a parameter. The parameter for the FIND
operator, for example, is the sub-dictionary name.
Table 20: Textual Lookup Operators
Operator Description
Number Recognizes numeric expressions (100, 1.2, …).
URL Recognizes any URL (for example, www.yahoo.fr, [e-mail]).
FIND Looks for a word in a second dictionary whose name is specified as a parameter
of this lookup operator. This operator lets you factorize complex entries.