Re: [Lingo] words with kanji in common

["Jim Breen" <jimbreen@example.com>]

On 15/07/07, Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:
> On 15/07/07, Kim Ahlström <kim.ahlstrom@example.com> wrote:
>
> > You can do this with jisho.org by using wildcards:
> > http://jisho.org/words/?jap=*化&eng=&dict=edict&common=on
>
> Uh-oh, Jim. A serious contender to WWWJDIC has emerged! ;)

Sure. jisho.org has been around for a while, and is *very* impressive.

BTW, WWWJDIC effectively has wildcards too. If you put 物 in as a search key
without checking the start-of-word option, you get the entries with 物 anywhere
in the compound.

> Actually, serious question: Do you consider WWWJDIC a reference
> implementation for the EDICT data files,

Not at all.

> or is your goal really to
> provide serious usability?

That's more like it. It started off as an attempt to get a useful, lightweight
server for EDICT. Then I added bells and whistles and bells and whistles ....
If a better mousetrap emerges, (or has emerged) I'd be delighted.

> I know Kim's stuff (jisho.org) is written in Perl (Catalyst, right
> Kim?), but maybe you guys could share some interface design tips; I
> know Kim is using some AJAX to cool effect for multi-radical kanji
> lookup.

Yes, the multi-radical kanji function is most impressive.

I may one day redo WWWJDIC from the ground up, but I need to concentrate
on getting its editorial process working in a semi-wiki mode. At present
processing all the incoming entries and amendments is taking too much
of my time.

Jim
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Jim Breen
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/