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Thank you very much for the feedback! So I actually talked with a dictionary expert that was a developer for WordNet. He told me that he spent tons of time tr

Thank you very much for the feedback! So I actually talked with a dictionary expert that was a developer for WordNet. He told me that he spent tons of time trying to determine which definition is the right one. He came to the conclusion that dictionary authors quite often disagree on the ordering of definitions and that it is a lost cause to try to rank definitions. I disagreed with him though. I think that definition form, word usage within the definition, and definition popularity can all contribute to selecting a "right one". That's why I applied statistical techniques to rank the definitions and reorder them to hopefully put the "right one" first. Sadly, it seems that I didn't do such a great job for you with the word "quarrel". Feedback noted as this will help when I start collecting data from users and make a push to improve my statistical analysis. Thank you again and please let me know if you would like to discuss this further with me. Hope all is well. :)

wingerlang 9y ago
I had the same issue as the other commenter. I also didn't quite understand the "word (1/15)" as it looked like there were around 15 words in the definition to begin with. Maybe you should just show all of them, vertically, until the user selects a new one.
- dictionaryfeed 9y ago
  Thank you very much for the follow-up reply in regards to this! The worst definition that I've found is if you search the word "hello". However, I actually like the first definition of the word "word" quite a bit. This demonstrates that there are differences from person to person. Bringing this difference to attention, you're right, it would make sense if there was a button to click to just expand all of the definition at once. Further, when a user selects one of them, I could record that data and incorporate user's preference of definition into my statistical analysis to provide better definitions and better orderings. I really appreciate your feedback and if you would ever like to discuss further, please let me know! :)

wingerlang 9y ago

I had the same issue as the other commenter. I also didn't quite understand the "word (1/15)" as it looked like there were around 15 words in the definition to begin with. Maybe you should just show all of them, vertically, until the user selects a new one.

dictionaryfeed 9y ago
Thank you very much for the follow-up reply in regards to this! The worst definition that I've found is if you search the word "hello". However, I actually like the first definition of the word "word" quite a bit. This demonstrates that there are differences from person to person. Bringing this difference to attention, you're right, it would make sense if there was a button to click to just expand all of the definition at once. Further, when a user selects one of them, I could record that data and incorporate user's preference of definition into my statistical analysis to provide better definitions and better orderings. I really appreciate your feedback and if you would ever like to discuss further, please let me know! :)