New Improved Display of Dictionary Results at Canoo.net

German version

Canoo.net adds new links to German language reference sites and further German spelling information.

Basel, Switzerland, July 3, 2007 - The layout of the results page at Canoo.net has been improved to clearly display the main dictionary links. All results offer direct access to the three most relevant Canoo dictionaries for spelling, inflection (i.e. word forms), and wordformation. A "More" button displays links to further German language resources. These links include the Canoo morphology dictionary, the largest online German-English dictionary LEO, and the Internet encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

The following links are new:

German dictionaries

• DWDS: Digital dictionary of 20th century German.
• Wortschatzlexikon: Vocabulary dictionary at the University of Leipzig.
• Redensartenindex: Index of idioms and phrases.

Translation dictionaries

• German-English dict.cc
• German-English Beolingus
• German-English Pons
• German-French LEO
• German-French Pons
• German-Spanish LEO
• German-Spanish Pons
• German-Spanish DIX
• German-Italian Pons
• German-Polish Pons

These new links turn the Canoo.net results page into a useful tool to easily access and search various language sites for German. For example, the English translation of a word can be checked in four different dictionaries.    

To follow the links to other dictionaries, click the "More" button.

New: Additional spelling information

Further details have been added to several hundred entries in the spelling dictionary. These changes primarily affect capitalization, and composite words that may be written as one word or apart depending on the sentence context. For example, the new spelling information for Zeit and zurzeit explains when to use zur Zeit or zurzeit. Further examples include Abend, bisherig, englisch, Euro, fünf, groß, jahrelang, sooft, stopp. Currently this additional information is only available for the most important problem cases.

Screenshot showing additional spelling information.

German grammar website

Canoo.net currently registers up to 1 million visits per month. All content can be accessed via hyperlink from any external web site, document, or digital presentation. Teachers and students may use these web addresses to refer to a particular section at Canoo.net as part of a web-based exercise or tutorial. Canoo.net includes:

• Over 250,000 lexicon entries with spelling, inflection, morphology, and word formation dictionaries for all data,
• Direct links to and from LEO, the largest German-English dictionary on the Internet,
• An online grammar providing over 1500 pages of grammatical explanations in German and in English.

Canoo.net is based on WMTrans products, demonstrating how this morphology software is integrated into language learning applications. For more information, please see the WMTrans product site at http://www.canoo.com/wmtrans and the corresponding demo page.

About Canoo

Canoo is a solution provider for Rich Internet Applications (RIA) based in Basel, Switzerland. It offers consulting services and end-to-end development of Enterprise Web applications. With 10 years of experience in Rich Internet Application (RIA) technology, Canoo is a leading expert in Web 2.0 applications, Java rich clients, and AJAX. Canoo’s RIA technology and web testing products are used in more than 60 countries worldwide.

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