July 6, 2007; 04:11 AM
The layout of the results page at Canoo.net ( http://www.canoo.net
) has been improved to clearly display the main dictionary links. All
results offer direct access to the three most relevant Canoo
dictionaries for spelling, inflection (i.e. word forms), and
wordformation. A "More" button displays links to further German
language resources. These links include the Canoo morphology
dictionary, the largest online German-English dictionary LEO, and the
Internet encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
The following links are new:
German dictionaries
- DWDS: Digital dictionary of 20th century German.
- Wortschatzlexikon: Vocabulary dictionary at the University of Leipzig.
- Redensartenindex: Index of idioms and phrases.
Translation dictionaries
- German-English dict.cc
- German-English Beolingus
- German-English Pons
- German-French LEO
- German-French Pons
- German-Spanish LEO
- German-Spanish Pons
- German-Spanish DIX
- German-Italian Pons
- German-Polish Pons
These
new links turn the Canoo.net results page into a useful tool to easily
access and search various language sites for German. For example, the
English translation of a word can be checked in four different
dictionaries.
New: Additional Spelling Information
Further details have been added to several hundred entries in the
spelling dictionary. These changes primarily affect capitalization, and
composite words that may be written as one word or apart depending on
the sentence context. For example, the new spelling information for
Zeit and zurzeit explains when to use zur Zeit or zurzeit. Further
examples include Abend, bisherig, englisch, Euro, fünf, groß,
jahrelang, sooft, stopp. Currently this additional information is only
available for the most important problem cases.
German Grammar Website
Canoo.net currently registers up to 1
million visits per month. All content can be accessed via hyperlink
from any external web site, document, or digital presentation. Teachers
and students may use these web addresses to refer to a particular
section at Canoo.net as part of a web-based exercise or tutorial.
Canoo.net includes:
- Over 250,000 lexicon entries with spelling, inflection, morphology, and word formation dictionaries for all data,
- Direct links to and from LEO, the largest German-English dictionary on the Internet,
- An online grammar providing over 1500 pages of grammatical explanations in German and in English.
Canoo.net
is based on WMTrans products, demonstrating how this morphology
software is integrated into language learning applications. For more
information, please see the WMTrans product site at http://www.canoo.com/wmtrans and the corresponding demo page.
About Canoo
Canoo is a solution provider for Rich Internet Applications (RIA) based
in Basel, Switzerland. It offers consulting services and end-to-end
development of Enterprise Web applications. With 10 years of experience
in Rich Internet Application (RIA) technology, Canoo is a leading
expert in Web 2.0 applications, Java rich clients, and AJAX. Canoo's
RIA technology and web testing products are used in more than 60
countries worldwide.
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