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OK, thanks. Got it.
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By all means, please email [email protected] and reference this conversation. [@Simone: FYI]
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Do you mind if I ask how you are using our ids (or maybe just the format of the ids?) as it would help us to understand what people do with our data and what we can do to improve their experience.
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No. There was a change to the English monolingual data ids which hit us in the early days of ODAPI (the result of a big project behind the scenes) but that was very much a one-off and is unlikely to be repeated in the foreseeable future. Everything …
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Like I said above, at this end we would also prefer it if the links worked differently but there are historic reasons why this is not currently possible. The website only functions as it does because of the ready availability of bulk data behind the…
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Hi @salmeda_nieves60, Can you please be a bit more specific regarding what issues you are having so that I can have a look to see what's wrong?
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Hi @shahood, The first example looks OK to me: you searched "zebra cross" and found "zebra crossing" as a headword. The second example looks odd in a couple of ways: [1] you noticed that it wasn't an inflected form; [2] the word value should n…
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Hi @shahood, Apologies for the delay. Our team have logged it as a bug but fixing it will depend on some other stuff that is happening behind the scenes.
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Hi @shahood, The answer is "sort of". I won't bore you with the historic reasons why it doesn't operate in the way you would like but I'll make a note that we ought to see if we can make it work that way in future (it will be quite a big project …
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Hi @shahood, I will need to make enquiries about this one...
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Hi @shahood, You need to take the JSON output on its own merits because you won't be able to map the JSON output to the website output (without some much deeper logical rearrangements). The data has been through different processes in each cas…
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Hi @rajmatiGM, Is your concern about the numbering (which is not included in the data, but which can be re-created from interpreting the structure) or the structure of the content? If the issue is with the structure, the indentations on the im…
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Hi @shahood, That's the language abbreviation ("en" = English). It's perfectly correct (for an English lookup, of course!).
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Hi @shahood, That is exactly the same situation as I was talking about. Previously, the thesaurus entry would have contained only a cross-reference to a synonymous word but our editorial team have been working on expanding these types of entry to…
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Hi @dbagley541, Yes, you can make that assumption. Just remember that the senses array (square brackets) contains several objects (curly brackets) and each object will have one or zero definitions. Where there are no definitions, you may also …
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Hi @rajmatiGM, Can you please retry posting your image?
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Hi @rajmatiGM, I'll have to pass the website issues onto someone else. Meanwhile, you can always copy/paste text outputs like error messages here for me to look at. If it's a single line of code, you can put one of the ` (U+0060 GRAVE ACCENT) cha…
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Hi @rg_m255, Maybe it would help if I described the overall structure rather than trying to answer specific questions, which I have already done above. Each of the parallel senses arrays contain one definitions object, each of which, where app…
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Hi @shahood, I'm still looking at this and trying to work out what is going on. I suspect the entry doesn't actually exist (look carefully and the online version and you'll see it's a copy of the thesaurus entry for the first sense of horrible) b…
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Hi @shahood, I would say, yes, code accordingly. I think this is a case of how you interpret that combination of no result and the 200 status: my reading of it is that the call functioned correctly i.e. there were no errors (200 status), however,…
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HI @egarfinkel99, We are aware of the issue and are working to resolve it meanwhile, my colleague will continue the conversation on email. Unfortunately, we are not likely to be able to fix anything soon but I expect your account will automati…
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We have been looking at wordlist options and have some proposals in early stage development right now; I won't say too much more here but the wheels are in motion.
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Hi @laraman, Understood and, yes, I am sure our learners' dictionaries do have a slightly different editorial policy so that will explain the discrepancy.
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Hi @shahood, Not yet, it is going to require a lot of effort to fix because, at its core, this issue is a clash between our dictionary data and the formatting of URLs; neither is particularly easy to change or circumvent but we are still working …
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Hi @shahood, That would require us to allow grammaticalFeatures as a wordlist filter (it is only currently available for the exclusion filters). I am a little surprised that it isn't already available as such. However, we have recently been re…
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Hi @laraman, Thanks for your comment, the differences you have noticed are because there are fundamental differences in the way words are pronounced in their respective regions (and, indeed, within their own region but that is a whole new can of …
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Hi @thanai373, You are noticing some of the differences between the website and the data feeding ODAPI. The content is the same but, in ODAPI, all of the subentries (including phrasal verbs) have been promoted to full entries to make them discove…
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Hi @vannawillerton, Unfortunately, the systems we have in place for ODAPI only let you interrogate the headword, not the IPA (or anything else). We can license you a bulk XML dataset which you could then interrogate in any way you choose but t…
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Hi @dh_selbee344, We will continue to display our sample code while it remains useful. Meanwhile, one of our tech team pointed me to this article which might help you with difficulties you might be having with Swift 4.
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Hi @nhayes264, I think you need to assess the value of entries such as https://od-api.oxforddictionaries.com:443/api/v1/entries/en/went and https://od-api.oxforddictionaries.com:443/api/v1/entries/en/telly (neither have a definition) to judge wha…
