Verbus

Beyond standard features that can be found in various applications and programs that have a similar use (e.g. conjugation tables and possibly a list of verbs that follow a specific conjugation model), Verbus is to offer the following features :

• indication of the “dialects” or variants in which a verb is “legal” (Portugal, Brazil…; France, Canada, Western Africa countries…; Spain, Mexico, latin America…);

• support of the most exhaustive possible list of verbs;
• support of multiple spellings of the conjugated forms;
• search of a conjugated form of a verb;
• graphical representation of the conjugation rules of tenses when such rules exist;
• rules and real examples of how and when to uses tenses;
• statistics and frequency data of irregular forms for each tense, each verb and each conjugation rule;
• user-defined “bookmarks” and custom groups of verbs;
• support of user notes;
• multilingual user interface, meaning full support of internationalization and localization;
• support of several languages in implementing the framework.

The portuguese language has been chosen as a test language. It exhibits features that appear ideal for a technical foundation framework such as Verbus; the features of the language make the platform more complete and richer with regard to the soundness of its technical foundation. Portuguese has:

• verbs that are specific to dialects/variants;
• numerous modes and tenses;
• regular verbs and irregular verbs ;
• verbs that are irregular in a varied number of tenses;
• regular endings for each tense;
• irregular forms on multiple tenses;
• variations even inside the same tense of a single mode (imperativo afirmativo and imperativo negativo) ;
• a person (second plural person) absent from some dialects or rarely used;
• a large number of irregular verbs conjugation models;
• formation rules applicable to all tenses and all verbs of the language;
• tenses that exhibits no irregularity with respect to formation rules;
• verbs that exhibit pseudo-radices;
• exceptions to multiple formation rules.

This section lists the technical configurations for which the Verbus framework is thought.

Devices

• Smartphones
• Tablets
• PC

Mobile platforms

• Android
• iOS

Other platforms

• Windows Store
• Web browsers

The administration interface will be developed in two versions, one using Java EE, for the richness of its ecosystem and toolset, and PHP and the Symfony 2 framework, in order to support the systems that can't, or won't, support Java.

The proof-of-concept application uses AngularJS, Bootstrap and jQuery, knowing that technical specifics will help aim for a platform as agnostic and universal as possible.