Hey everyone. So I've got some free time, and I'm wanting to keep my programming skills fresh in hopes of finding a job when I'm in Ireland this coming school year. What are some programs you wish existed for Irish? I've already got one that searches teanglann.ie for a word and gives you all the information (and audio, if it exists!), but I want to come up with something new as well. However, I'm completely stumped. What's something y'all would like to see? I'd like to start simple and slowly add on more features, as I don't have enough time to make a program that's really sellable, if that makes sense.

Best,

GR.

This is probably a big ask and not the type of project you're looking for but,

There is a programme called TreeTagger which creates grammatical tags for words in a language, it allows people like myself to do research on linguistic questions. I'm wondering would you be interested in creating or modifying a programme like this for Irish?

It wasn't the type I was looking for, no. However, it is interesting. I just don't know how TreeTagger works. However, it seems that if you can get a lexicon and manually tagged corpus, it can be adapted.

I've been using the program readlang.com and I think it is a great program for anyone wanting to increase their Irish vocabulary by reading. You can import text material or a page from a website and if you click on a word or phrase it will give you the meaning and simultaneously generate a flashcard to help in memorization. Unfortunately the reference dictionary that I think is used is Google Translate which as you probably know can create some misinterpretations and misreadings. If the program that you have written using teanglann.ie could be used as a reference dictionary for readlang.com it would be fantastiic.
Séamus

Yeah, it does use teanglann (though I'm seriously debating changing the English search to focloir since De Bhaldraithe is slightly dated). Do you know what language their back-end is written in? Or how I could contact them?

You could contact them. They seem amenable to any kind of feedback or questions:

Feedback

If you wish to send us any feedback on the site (which we welcome), please e-mail aiseolas2@forasnagaeilge.ie.
If you wish to report an error on the site, we would greatly appreciate it if you could give as much detail as possible – e.g. in which dictionary/database did the error occur, what sequence of entries you made to generate the error, what precisely is the error etc etc.

Have you seen how they do that on Beo? You have the choice of - bosca aníos or díreach sa téacs.

www.beo.ie

I was looking at the JS source code when I saw this line and nearly spit out my coffee.



No need to tell me, I know I am juvenile.

Previously the site was using ASPX pages so I would suspect that it's SQL Server but that's just a guess. I'd like to know what the site uses, GR, if you find out.

Teanglann or Readlang? I meant readlang, but actually didn't pursue either of them, since I was more wanting something I could do with Python as that's my strongest language. And, somehow, I had completely missed franc's post!

But, I'm still open to any ideas y'all might have.

An app where vocab and phrases were grouped by semantic class -for example the body, machines, flora etc

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