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This is a great database, but the interface is disgusting.Originally Posted by chaika
So, I have designed a better interface for the it here.
All it does is grab the data from STARLING, and then presents it in a better way. The search input is on the same page so you don't have to navigate anywhere. If there are several words that match, there will be a tab for each one. Stress points are marked with red instead of apostrophes.
It looks very nice in Firefox, but since the HTML from STARLING is so old fashioned, I can't guarantee results for other browsers (let me know if something looks odd).
I think it should work independent of locale settings, but I haven't tried anything other than UTF-8.
You can search for both English and Russian words. My focus was the Russian ones though. There are some issues with the English search, I might fix those in the future.
If you see a bug, please let me know!
Note 1: STARLING does not accept the ё character... so always write е instead. The output will have ё.
Note 2: The "dictionary information" field data are pulled straight from Andrey Zaliznyaks "Grammaticheskij slovar' russkogo jazyk" and are explained there in the introduction. However, I don't have this book, nor could I read it if I did, so if anyone wants to help me figure out what all this means, that would be great. Getting hold of the introduction to that dictionary would be a great first step. Pretty please!
Hope you find it useful.
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