[Tutor] html color coding: where to start

[Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل)]

2009/9/17 bob gailer <bgailer at gmail.com>

> Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل) wrote:
>
>> Hi Tutors,
>> I want to color-code the different parts of the word in a morphologically
>> complex natural language. The file I have looks like this, where the fisrt
>> column is the word, and the  second is the composite part of speech tag. For
>> example, Al is a DETERMINER, wlAy is a NOUN and At is a PLURAL NOUN SUFFIX
>>
>> Al+wlAy+At        DET+NOUN+NSUFF_FEM_PL
>> Al+mtHd+p        DET+ADJ+NSUFF_FEM_SG
>>
>> The output I want is one on which the word has no plus signs, and each
>> segment is color-coded with a grammatical category. For example, the noun is
>> red, the det is green, and the suffix is orange.  Like on this page here:
>> http://docs.google.com/View?id=df7jv9p9_3582pt63cc4
>> I am stuck with the html part and I don't know where to start. I have no
>> experience with html, but I have this skeleton (which may not be the right
>> thing any way)
>> Any help with materials, modules, suggestions appreciated.
>>
>> This skeleton of my program is as follows:
>>
>> #############
>> RED = ("NOUN", "ADJ")
>> GREEN = ("DET", "DEMON")
>> ORANGE = ("NSUFF", "VSUFF", "ADJSUFF")
>>
>
> Instead of that use a dictionary:
>
> colors = dict(NOUN="RED", ADJ="RED",DET ="GREEn",DEMON ="GREEN",
>                     NSUFF="ORANGE", VSUFF="ORANGE", ADJSUFF="ORANGE")
>
>> # print html head
>> def print_html_head():
>>    #print the head of the html page
>>   def print_html_tail():
>>   # print the tail of the html page
>>
>> def color(segment, color):
>>   # STUCK HERE shoudl take a color, and a segment for example
>>
>> # main
>> import sys
>> infile = open(sys.argv[1]) # takes as input the POS-tagged file
>> print_html_head()
>> for line in infile:
>>    line = line.split()
>>    if len(line) != 2: continue
>>    word = line[0]
>>    pos = line[1]
>>    zipped = zip(word.split("+"), pos.split("+"))
>>      for x, y in zipped:
>>        if y in DET:
>>            color(x, "#FF0000")
>>        else:
>>            color(x, "#0000FF")
>>
>> print_html_tail()
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> لا أعرف مظلوما تواطأ الناس علي هضمه ولا زهدوا في إنصافه كالحقيقة.....محمد
>> الغزالي
>> "No victim has ever been more repressed and alienated than the truth"
>>
>> Emad Soliman Nawfal
>> Indiana University, Bloomington
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>
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> Bob Gailer
> Chapel Hill NC
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>

Thank you all. This is great help. I just started looking into html two days
ago.
Thank you again.

-- 
لا أعرف مظلوما تواطأ الناس علي هضمه ولا زهدوا في إنصافه كالحقيقة.....محمد
الغزالي
"No victim has ever been more repressed and alienated than the truth"

Emad Soliman Nawfal
Indiana University, Bloomington
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