Idiograma

Spanish tense and aspect made visible: any sentence becomes an interactive timeline, built on a homegrown linguistic theory.

Problem

• The only shared language teachers and students have for talking about language is grammar names, and those names carry zero meaning about when to use the thing.
• Students memorize what they can name and never learn the part that matters.

Approach

• A fine-tuned language model returns a structured analysis of every verb, and the browser draws it as an interactive timeline.
• The rendering engine implements a written spec (TimeZones, now at v1.5) with fifteen numbered rulings that work as case law.
• The governing principle is semantics over grammar: morphology is evidence, not criterion.
• Model output is a candidate until I ratify it; a validator enforces the spec in CI with zero errors required.
• An annotation workbench renders every reading as a real diagram before I judge it.

Outcome

• Live, mid-renovation, and the model is the weak link.
• The idea landed with a real teacher. The gap is accuracy and polish.

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Open Idiograma ↗ idiograma.com · runs in its own tab

Pictured: the renovated app, not yet published. The public site still runs the earlier build; its model is the pre-renovation fine-tune, so some analyses will be wrong. The retrain is the next phase.