Question regarding Corresponding Words

Greg F

I just noticed that clicking on a Greek lemma that has multiple possible translations doesn't highlight the corresponding lemma, if the first translation for a lemma is different than the first translation for the other lemma.

Take the word φὐσις for example. Below I've clicked on the accusative singular morpheme φύσιν, but, because the first lemma identified by Logos (see the Info panel on the right) is 1. φύς (a son) rather than 2. φύσις (nature), the second occurrence of the word in the text isn't highlighted, because it is identified only with 2. φύσις (nature).

My description is probably unhelpfully unclear, here is an image of the issue:

Is this by design, or is this a bug? It would seem necessary to highlight all the different translations for a given lemma, even at the risk of having a few false positives (ie. occasionally highlighting "a son" when the user wanted "nature" and vice versa), rather than NOT highlighting and missing actual corresponding words.

Greg F

I should probably add that yes, I have "Corresponding Words" selected in the Visual Filters menu and yes, I have "Click" selected next to it. Thanks!

Greg F

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/846473#Comment_846473

Same problem if I click on ἔχει a few words later: because Logos identifies it first with "ἜΧῘΣ, εως, ὁ: a viper, adder" rather than the much more common 2. ἔχω: to have, none of the corresponding uses of ἔχειν are highlighted in the text.

This effectively means that the Corresponding Words feature is only really useful when working on the Bible (where pluri-semantic words are all correctly identified) and not on texts like the Loeb volumes, where automatic tagging has been applied.

Andrew Batishko

For some reason, that portion of the resource doesn't appear to be tagged with lemmas at all, which prevents these features from working properly. I'll notify the correct people to take a look. You can determine this by right-clicking on the word in question and seeing if any lemmas are displayed on the right side of the context menu.