Re: [tlug] a japanese dictionary

[dabicho <tsukebumi@example.com>]

On 4/1/06, Michael Engel <mkengel@example.com> wrote:

>>I'm working on building a japanese dictionary

Principally that's interesting, could you please explain your concept
of the dictionary in some words.
What structure will it have, where do you get the data for the
dictionary, etc...?

> How about classifying the words by subject, searching for synonyms or
> related words and for antonyms (oposite meaning words)

Are such data available or do they need to be written from scratch ?

Maybe, but certainly not freely available, so it should be written from scratch...

> A sort would be pretty usefull too. Sort by furigana, by stroke count, by
> some dictionary number. Grouping by kanji.
For such data, see the KanjiDic maintained by Jim Breen

Thank you
Michael

Kanji Dic is nice.
But what I was talking above is a sorting in the japanese dictionary, not searching for kanji, but for words containing a specific kanji in a specific position and sorting the words in various different ways (like furigana, or stroke count or a kanji dic number the same way.)

A start point could be Jim's dic files, but I was just giving suggestions ^_^

also, like Stephen said 'some kind of standard query language.' would be very usefull/nice too.