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C-Print – National Technical Institute for the Deaf

Jennie — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:00:00 +0000

Please share any professional development resources you may have for individuals working as C-Print captionists. I hope the information and resources contained here will be of benefit to you.

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Copy Paste Characters

Jennie — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:41:00 +0000

This is a really great resource website for captionists. You can easily copy practically any symbol you might need to paste into the C-Print software and make a specialty expansion.

Check it out today – Copy Paste Characters

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OneLook Reverse Look-Up Dictionary

Jennie — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:58:00 +0000

This neat online tool allows you to look up words when you know the meaning of the word but can’t think of the actual word itself. Here are some examples of searches that you can do with OneLook:

bluebird	Find definitions of bluebird
blue*	Find words and phrases that start with blue
*bird	Find words and phrases that end with bird
bl????rd	Find words that start with bl, end with rd, and have 4 letters in between
bl*:snow	Find words that start with bl and have a meaning related to snow
*:snow or :snow	Find any words related to snow
*:winter sport	Find words related to the concept winter sport
winter	Find phrases that contain the word winter
expand:nasa	Find phrases that spell out n.a.s.a.

You can also use OneLook’s Reverse dictionary feature. Here is an explanation of that feature from their website.

OneLook’s reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question, or even just a single word. Just type it into the box above and hit the “Find words” button. Keep it short to get the best results. In most cases you’ll get back a list of related terms with the best matches shown first.

OneLook indexes hundreds of online dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference sites. By now you may have used the standard search available from the home page, which shows you a list of definition links for any word you type in. This is the reverse: Here we search our references for words that have definitions conceptually similar to the words you search for. We do this using a motley assortment of statistical language processing hacks.

This is a great resource for C-Print captionists to have in their bag of tricks!

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Vocabulary Tool – Wordnik

Jennie — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:45:00 +0000

Wordnik is a terrific resource online for C-Print captionists continually striving to build the ever expanding C-Print dictionary – and it is interactive! Here is some information about what Wordnik can do from their FAQ page online.

Wordnik wants to be a place for all the words, and everything known about them.

Our goal is to show you as much information as possible, just as fast as we can find it, for every word in English, and to give you a place where you can make your own opinions about words known.

By “information,” we don’t just mean traditional definitions (although we have plenty of those)! This information could be:

An example sentence—even if we’ve only found one sentence for a word, we’ll show it to you. (And we’ll show you where the sentence came from, too!

Related words: not just synonyms and antonyms, but words that are used in the same contexts. (For instance, cheeseburger, milkshake, and doughnut are not synonyms, but they show up in the same kinds of sentences.)

Images tagged by our friends at Flickr: want to know what a “pout” looks like? We’ll show you.

Statistics: how rare is “tintinnabulation”? Well, we think you’ll see it only about once a year. “Smile”? You might see that word many times, every day.

An audio pronunciation—and you can record your own!

Something YOU tell us! Use the “Contribute” links to tell us something—anything—about a word.

Check them out and do a word search … some pretty neat information and a great way to quickly add related words on a particular subject matter to your dictionary!

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