General structure
A Lexa database (lexadb) is a directory containing the
following files/dirs:
-
config.yaml: the database configuration file. -
grammar.yaml: the grammar specification file. -
lexicon/: directory containing Lexa lexicon files. -
texts/: directory containing Lexa text collections (lexatxt).
You can find examples of Lexa databases as part of the lexa package (https://github.com/stefanocoretta/lexa/tree/main/inst/extdata).
To quickstart a new database, just run:
library(lexa)
create_lexadb(name = "my_")A database called my_lexadb will be created in your
working directory.
Lexicon file schema
id: lx_00000n
lexeme: <string>
phon: <string>
morph_category: <lexical, grammatical>
morph_type: <root, stem, affix, clitic, particle, compound, phrase>
part_of_speech: <string>
inflectional_features:
<feature_n>: <string>
etymology: <string>
loan_word: <string>
notes: [<string>]
allomorphs:
al_0n:
id: al_0n
morph: <string>
phon: <string>
conditioning:
type: <phonological, morphosyntactic, free>
context: <string>
senses:
se_0n:
id: se_0n
gloss: <string>
definition: <string>
literal: <string>
scientific: <string>
usage: <string>
inflectional_features:
<feature_n>: <string>
examples: ["tx_00000n:st_00000n"]
etymology: <string>
crossref: ["lx_00000n"]
variants: [<string>]
semantics:
semantic_domain: ["sd_00000n"]
synonyms: ["lx_00000n"]
antonyms: ["lx_00000n"]
date_created: <date>
date_modified: <date>Text schema
Texts are located in the texts/ folder. Each text is
saved in a separate .yaml file.
id: tx_00000n
title: <string>
topic: <string>
genre: <string>
participants: [<string>]
translators: [<string>]
source: <string>
sentences:
st_00000n:
sentence: <string>
transcription: <string>
transliteration: <string>
phon: <string>
morpho_phon: <string>
morpho: <string>
gloss: <string>
translation: <string>
literal: <string>
notes: [<string>]
notes: [<string>]