addLayerDictionaryEntry: Adds an entry to a layer dictionary.

In nzilbb.labbcat: Accessing Data Stored in 'LaBB-CAT' Instances

Adds an entry to a layer dictionary.

Description

This function adds a new entry to the dictionary that manages a given layer, and updates all affected tokens in the corpus. Words can have multiple entries.

Usage

addLayerDictionaryEntry(labbcat.url, layer.id, key, entry)

Arguments

labbcat.url	URL to the LaBB-CAT instance
layer.id	The ID of the layer with a dictionary configured to manage it.
key	The key (word) in the dictionary to add an entry for.
entry	The value (definition) for the given key.

Details

You must have edit privileges in LaBB-CAT in order to be able to use this function.

Value

NULL if the entry was added, or a list of error messages if not.

See Also

generateLayer

Examples

## Not run: 
## Add a pronunciation for the word "robert" to the phonemes layer dictionary
addLayerDictionaryEntry(labbcat.url, "phonemes", "robert", "'rQ-b@t")

## End(Not run)

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