Re: examples

jim_breen_at_hotmail.com
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: 27 Oct 2004 22:03:41 GMT

Max <max77@despammed.org> dixit:
>I would like to be able to use the edict dictionary looking for examples
>sentences, just like in the online version but... I'd like to be able o do
>it offline.

Yes, that would be great. Quite a few people have been asking for that.

>What do I need to install exactly? (if possible)

Software that no-one seems to have written yet.

>Thanks

Don't mention it.

I must admit to some mild surprise on this. It is nearly two years since
I made the Tanaka corpus available for download, and apart from WWWJDIC
and one other solitary WWW-based system no-one has touched it for a
publicly-available tool (I know quite a few people have used it for
other purposes.)

There were mutterings that it was too big, so I wrote an extractor that
pulled out a subset about 35% the size of the full file, and which kept the
same coverage of indexed words. This subset is updated daily and also
freely available. As far as I know, no-one has used it.

If I could do more to encourage someone to add the examples to an
"offline" dictionary program, I would. Perhaps people could
send Alex Schonfeld (the JQuickTrans guy) pleading emails.

[I don't develop "offline" dictionary software any more, as I prefer to
concentrate on the WWW server and the files. I am not going to make
WWWJDIC "available" for local installation, as it's quite complex
and locked into a *nix/Apache environment, and I have no interest in
doing installation documentation, etc. much less in providing support.] 

-- 
Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Computer Science & Software Engineering,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia 
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