[Memaid-users] Grade's for vocabulary learing and Categories

[Andreas G. <and...@cl...>]

I am using kmemaid for learning french vocs. As I don't understand what
the "NN Training Time" in Settings represents, I started browsing for an
answer. Unsuccessful, but that's a different story.

What I have found instead is David's explanation on the ANN internals.
There is written, that Grade 4 is regarded as the optimum, while 5
implies the user knows the subject too well. And grade 0 is used for
items never reviewed.

Up to today, I sticked to the following scheme:

Grade 0 : Never heard that word before.
Grade 1 : Would have understood it, even without knowing it
Grade 2 : Oh sure! I know it, but just couldn't remember
Grade 3 : After some thinking, I found it
Grade 4 : Immediate recall, but with errors (spelling, sex)
Grade 5 : Immediate and correct recall

I guess with the ANN internal grade interpretation, the above list could
be improved. But how? Any ideas?


Talking about categories, I, for one, would love to see them in memaid.
Here's my thinking - and it's all about vocabulary, your mileage may
vary.

While learning French, I need to improve the overall language
capability, so importing and learning any word-pairs will do just fine
and this is where I am currently.

Next, I realize, my restaurant vocabulary is just too bad. So I would
like to have these words in my french learning environment, but wish to
work on these words specifically. Or, once learned, just wish to
maintain the recall-level.

>From this example, I would even propose yet another structure:

I have category "Languages" with sub-category "French". Within "French",
I have contexts like "Restaurant", "Internet", "Aviation", "Dating" ...

A dedicated Restaurant database would do the job to enforce learning
this specific language part - but then how to integrate it later in the
general french database to keep the recall on the language level?

Any ideas? Comments? Am I too complicated?


Best,

Andreas

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