Merging duplicate part of speech categories

[Eric Jackson]

Hi, everyone. I'm working with a student who has imported a large amount of lexical data into FLEx that was originally a plain text file. Somehow in this process, she ended up with duplicated grammatical categories; for instance, looking in the Grammar area under Category Edit, she sees this: (apologies for the resolution; this is a screen-grab of a Zoom meeting)

As one method to merge these duplicated categories, I can imagine a process like this:

1. In the Grammar area under Category view, rename each duplicated category so it's easier to see which is which (like "VExpr intr 1" and "VExpr intr 2")

2. In the Lexicon area under Bulk Edit, change the category for all "VExpr intr 2" senses to be "VExpr intr 1"

3. In the Grammar area under Category view, delete the now-unused "VExpr intr 2"

(and repeat these steps for each duplicated category)

Is there any better way to do this? I haven't come across any menu item that would let me merge categories, comparable to the way to merge senses.

Thanks for your advice!

Warmly,

Eric

Eric Jackson

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[Etienne Ondoa]

Hi Eric,

Based on your screenshot and the details you provided, I suggest the following steps:

1. Back up your FLEx project.

2. Rename one of the duplicate grammatical categories, for example:VExpr intr old.

3. In Lexicon → Bulk Edit, replace all occurrences of VExpr intr (old) with the correct VExpr intr.

4. Verify that no entries still use the old category.

5. Delete the unused duplicate category from Grammar → Category Edit.

Please note that FLEx does not currently provide a built-in Merge Categories feature (I have tried and didn't succeed), so Bulk Edit is the safest and most practical method. If there are many duplicates, check whether the import created hidden duplicate categories due to trailing spaces or Unicode differences before starting the cleanup.

More experienced people can offer the best ideas.

Blessings

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[kevin_...@sil.org]

I affirm Etienne’s suggested approach but would like to add a detail that I think may be important.

 

In each pair of duplicates, I suspect that one of the categories includes an abbreviation, while the other does not. Be sure to keep the one that includes the abbreviation, or you’ll have to add that back in at the end of the deduplication task.

 

Best wishes,

Kevin

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