Common meanings by context
I'd love to have a dictionary be able to do definition by context. Context can affect the meaning of a word, and the dictionary that could determine which meaning of the word, based on context, would be extremely helpful. An example of one approach to this is Space Alc (http://
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Providing context would require at least monolingual corpora, perhaps bi- or multi- lingual corpora.
The Tanaka corpus would be great for English-Japanese.
Also, thinking about this, we need to discriminate between "contextual search" and "results with context". The proposal as stated is for the latter, but the former would be interesting too. For example, with a English-Japanese dictionary, one could seach "spring (metal)" and it should find "発条", while "spring (water)" should find "樋川" or "温泉" and "spring (season)" should find "春".
"Results with context" would provide small example sentences with the results so the user can easily see some pragmatics and domain-limitations for each word.