B3. Advanced Lexical Relations I

Summary

Title: Advanced Lexical Relations I

This lesson is the first in a two-part series on advanced lexical relations in FLEx. It focuses on understanding and creating custom lexical relation types by evaluating their underlying structures, and configuring them in the FLEx dictionary database.

🧠 Learning Objectives:

• Understand the semantic nature of lexical relations between words.
  
  

• Identify and work with underlying structures: collection, scale, tree, pair (bidirectional/unidirectional).
  
  

• Create custom lexical relation types using the Configuration Tool in FLEx.
  
  

📚 Key Concepts:

Lexical Relations:

Semantic associations between lexemes (e.g., synonym, antonym, part-whole).

Underlying Structures:

Lexical relations can be structured in 18 possible configurations, based on:

• Type: Collection, Scale, Tree, Pair (1 or 2 relation names), or Unidirectional.
  
  

• Level: Entry-level, Sense-level, or mixed.
  
  

• Directionality: Bidirectional or Unidirectional.
  
  

🔧 Practical Applications:

• Activities using Sense Collection (e.g., synonyms) and Entry Collection (e.g., compare).
  
  

• Modifying display of lexical relations in FLEx via the Configure Dictionary tool:
  
  

  • Suppressing sense numbers
    
    

  • Changing labels (e.g., cf → "See also")
    
    

  • Reordering relation types
    
    

  • Displaying glosses selectively using duplicated nodes
    
    

🧪 Sample Exercises:

• Create and edit custom relation types like "Compare (Sense)"
  
  

• Insert cross-references between specific senses
  
  

• Format and reposition lexical data presentation
  
  

• Use Context Control features to stylize dictionary output