Luthor tool demo for adding usage examples to Wikidata lexemes: transcript

Key points

• Luthor helps add senses and usage examples to lexemes on Wikidata, such as the English word "let", which has several senses.
• The tool is hosted on Toolforge and requires logging in so it can make edits on the user's behalf.
• The demo searches for the noun "pace" and rejects example sentences that are proper names or Latin phrases.
• A sentence from the Brothers Grimm, about a witch riding at a furious pace on a tomcat, is chosen as the example.
• Because the sentence fits neither existing sense, a new sense meaning rate of movement or speed is created, and the example is attached to it.
• The new sense appears as sense number three on the lexeme, and the speaker asks for feedback and for people to share the tool.

Chapters

1. 0:00What Luthor does and how usage examples appear on lexemes
2. 1:00Logging in and choosing a language and word
3. 1:31Searching for a good example sentence for "pace"
4. 2:50Creating a new sense for the example
5. 4:03Result on the lexeme and closing request for feedback

Full transcript

0:00Hello, my name is Asaf Baltov, and I'm the author of a tool called LUTHER designed to help you add senses to lexemes on Wikidata, say, this lexeme for the English word let, we can see that, among other things, one of the statements we have about this word, this lexeme, is the statement about usage examples. and here we have three usage examples and it also specifies which sense is described here because the word let has more than one sense so this first example describes let in the sense of to allow not to prevent the tool lives on tool forge like all other tools so it's just luthor notice the spelling luthor as in lex luthor get it see what i did there uh lexemes yes

1:00luthor.toolforge.org which takes you to this screen you can change the interface language so we log in because the tool is making edits on your behalf So, we have to log in in order to allow it to make edits on your behalf. Okay, in this case, I'm allowing the tool to make edits. Let's demonstrate with English for maximal accessibility. Okay, abbreviate. That should work.

1:31This is an example. So, the verb abbreviate, to abbreviate, we need a sentence that is a good example of this use. here's another example the lexeme pace the lexeme pace the noun pace right which either describes speed of something the rate of progress of something or a unit of length like saying it was 50 paces from the house to the well so let's look at these examples and see um here's an example there's lots of legal documents on english wiki source so you can find uh words uh appearing as proper names right fisher versus pace obviously not a sentence we want to use as an example Here we have paque in Latin, R-I-P, requiescat in paque. Again, not what we want. But here we go. Before long, the witch came by, riding at a furious pace on a tomcat. Lovely. From the Brothers Grimm.

2:50let's use this example let's remove the bit we don't need from the previous sentence and let's remove the bit we don t need from the rest right before long the witch came by riding at a furious pace on a tomcat okay and what does this describe which sense does this describe the speed at which a story is told or the unit of length well it's not really the pace of a story that's a very particular sense of pace as in speed so let's add a new sense in English and this new sense is rate Of movement, speed, right? And add this example as an example of this sense, the sense of rate of movement, speed. It is not an example of the speed at which a story is told. That's not what this sentence is an example of.

4:03We click add example, the usage example has been added, and the new sense has been added, and we can look at this lexeme now and see that there is indeed a usage example with our new sense rate of movement speed. you can see that our new sense has been added here as sense number three right we still need different examples of a use of pace as a unit of length right let me know how you like it and if you start using it in your language I would love to hear from you and I would also encourage you to share it with your community thank you

Source and licence

Recording: File:Luthor demo lightning talk Wikimania 2024.webm by Ijon (2024-08-02), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. The transcript, summary and chapters on this page are shared under the same licence (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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