Hi, surely many of you are familiar with one or other usage of the term "noise". Today i have a question concerning the philosphy behind what goes intot he...
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Paul Blay
blay_paul
Feb 7, 2008 7:58 am
... The philosophy is to put $B30Mh8l(B that is in use by Japanese into the database. All three of those fall firmly into the 'in use' category (and...
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Darren Cook
darren@...
Feb 7, 2008 8:14 am
... Yes, agreed. In other words the problem is the Japanese people's delight in using katakana. The other problem is that the katakana words are not always...
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Paul Blay
blay_paul
Feb 7, 2008 8:24 am
... I don't think so. Some 'alternative spelling pairs' have special processing, but that can be disabled by using the + character and doesn't result in...
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René Malenfant
reneneedsser...
Feb 7, 2008 9:06 am
The "noise and philosophy" thread reminded me of something I wanted to bring up as well. One thing I've been thinking about is the automated creation of a ...
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Paul Blay
blay_paul
Feb 7, 2008 9:21 am
While we're all adding to the 'wishlist' there is one thing I could do with. Notification of changes to Edict entries that affect 'senses' currently supported...
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Jim Rose
from_csted
Feb 7, 2008 11:07 am
... I wouldn't mind a little "and" "or" boolean capability built into WWWJDIC... unless I get around to fixing one up on Kanjicafe. On Feb 7, 2008, at 5:05 AM,...
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hiz--dic@...
Feb 7, 2008 11:15 am
Hi Paul and Darren, thanks for the feedback... Paul Blay $B$5$s$,(B 07:58 8/02/07 +0000 $B$K=q$$$?%a%C%;!<%8$N7o!'(B ... Darren Cook $B$5$s$,(B 17:14...
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hiz--dic@...
Feb 7, 2008 11:15 am
Hello Ren$Bq@(B Ren$Bq@(BMalenfant $B$5$s$,(B 18:05 8/02/07 +0900 $B$K=q$$$?%a%C%;!<%8$N7o!'(B ... I see... ... I missed that somehow - please tell me...
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Paul Blay
blay_paul
Feb 7, 2008 11:26 am
... There are about three important pieces of information that entries like $B%"!<%+%$%V(B provide as Edict entries. 1. The information that it _is_ in use...
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Paul Blay
blay_paul
Feb 7, 2008 11:34 am
... I was going to say that there's an easy way to do something similar to that - but there's something screwy going on with the search function. Suppose you...
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hiz--dic@...
Feb 7, 2008 12:08 pm
Hi again, and thanks for the additional info... Paul Blay $B$5$s$,(B 11:26 8/02/07 +0000 $B$K=q$$$?%a%C%;!<%8$N7o!'(B ... Ah... i based my comments on the...
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Paul Blay
blay_paul
Feb 7, 2008 12:15 pm
... WWWJDIC is used mostly by non-Japanese (I do get the occasional comment on example sentences that looks like it's from someone Japanese). WWWJDIC is also...
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Paul Blay
blay_paul
Feb 7, 2008 12:16 pm
... Oh, I forgot to say - do you know why Yahoo Groups hates you? Seriously, every email you send in gets marked as 'spam' and I (or Jim) has to 'approve' you....
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Jim Breen
breen_jim
Feb 8, 2008 4:46 am
Greetings, [I spend an evening away for the Internet and find a few long discussions have happened. I think Paul and others have handled the general question...
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Jim Breen
breen_jim
Feb 8, 2008 5:05 am
... Apart from E->J usage, one good reason for having $B30Mh8l(B is to help the "Translate Words" function to segment text properly. In fact the database is...
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Jim Breen
breen_jim
Feb 8, 2008 7:17 am
... [...] ... Removing the arch/obs/obsc senses may not have much impact. About 1900 senses have one or more of those markings, out of 127,000 senses currently...
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Jeroen Hoek
jeroenhoek
Feb 8, 2008 11:04 am
Hello, The following errors keep popping up on http://www.edrdg.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page: * Notice*: unserialize() ...
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Paul Blay
blay_paul
Feb 8, 2008 11:07 am
... Errors or not, I'm glad someone is using it. I was hoping it would be used as a more structured way of discussing and settling points as well as a handy...
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hiz--dic@...
Feb 9, 2008 9:24 am
Hello from Okinawa... thanks, Paul and Jim, for your comments and further info. I'll send a combined reply to several of your posts and then recede a bit into...
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Paul Blay
blay_paul
Feb 9, 2008 9:39 am
... Funny, I wasn't aware that the "translate words in Japanese text" function did any hiragana only stuff. I'll just throw something in it and check ... ...
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hiz--dic@...
Feb 9, 2008 11:48 am
Hi Paul, two short replies to your reply... 1) ... Well... you could try $B$"$j$^$9(B with edict, enjoy the resulting $B5B4,(B, and follow the invitation...
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Jim Breen
breen_jim
Feb 11, 2008 12:33 am
... I am the main culprit here. Yes, when someone suggests a change to an entry, and I accept the recommendation (which I usually do, either all or in part), I...
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Jim Breen
breen_jim
Feb 11, 2008 1:09 am
... It is mentioned in the docs. The handling of hiragana strings is very cautious. It only looks at them if they are 3 or more characters long, it uses a ...
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Jim Breen
breen_jim
Feb 11, 2008 2:08 am
... That's pretty much my experience. The times when I have had to translate largish slabs of text, I tip it into WWWJDIC with the "no repeated translations"...
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Paul Blay
blay_paul
Feb 11, 2008 6:10 am
Hi Jim, ... It's that time lag that's the real killer. For example here I am and I've just read "There is an English term "sub-address", which is written...
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Jeroen Hoek
jeroenhoek
Feb 11, 2008 1:26 pm
Hello, By chance this word caught my attention: 反越 【はねつ】 (n) anti-Vietnam The reading strikes me as odd, but I am not absolutely sure if it is a ...
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Jim Breen
breen_jim
Feb 11, 2008 10:21 pm
... It was a bad conversion from romaji. That entry was put in in 2001 from a romaji source. I thought I'd got them all, but obviously not that one. ... No not...
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Paul Blay
blay_paul
Feb 12, 2008 2:40 am
... Aha! That's what you were talking about. When you mentioned 'newsubs' earlier I hunted around the http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/dicsubs/ directory...
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Jim Breen
breen_jim
Feb 12, 2008 4:34 am
... OK. I have now put a link to it in the http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/dicsubs/0_Directory_guide.html in that directory. ... Added a link to...
