http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/ The JMdict/EDICT Group Sat, 11 May 2013 06:28:58 GMT Jim Breen http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4980 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4980 ... I've decided to go ahead and blast them in. In testing, the update script processed 15-20 updates a second. I don't want to overtax the server, so I have Tue, 07 May 2013 03:46:55 GMT Jim Breen http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4979 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4979 More on automatically adding dotted readings for 外来語 entries. ... I've gone over them quite a bit. It's now about 9,100 entries. I'm a lot happier with Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:04:51 GMT Nils Roland Barth http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4978 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4978 ... Hi.Jim, This.is.very.cool! Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:51:08 GMT Jim Breen http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4977 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4977 Greetings, As all of you will know, written Japanese has the practice (not always followed) of marking the word boundaries in multi-word 外来語 with a Sat, 20 Apr 2013 02:12:07 GMT Jim Breen http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4976 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4976 ... Thanks for the comments. I think I'll leave them as-is, and make a note in the documentation. Jim -- Jim Breen Adjunct Snr Research Fellow, Japanese Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:23:52 GMT Nils Roland Barth http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4975 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4975 ... It’s probably easiest and accurate to leave as is, and leave it up to client programs how to display; I would likely display as “Old JLPT 2” etc. Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:38:01 GMT iammatthewmiller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4974 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4974 I think it would be better to leave the entries as-is and let people determine on their own which kanji from which JLPT level they should study. Everyone's Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:05:19 GMT Jim Breen http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4973 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4973 As some of you will know, the JLPT has changed from having 4 levels of tests to 5 levels. The actual change involved inserting a new intermediate level below Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:19:33 GMT Jim Breen http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4972 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4972 Hi, I won't be able to do much editorial stuff for the next two weeks. My wife's conference in Matsumoto (during which I had a bit of spare time) finished Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:47:07 GMT Ben Bullock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4971 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4971 ... I strongly recommend installing Perl in a user directory. Download the source code from perl.org, untarball perl-5.whatever and then run the "Configure" Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:21:22 GMT Jim Breen http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4970 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4970 ... Thanks for that. I'll look at it in detail when I'm back in Oz. I've not had a lot of success running Perl modules using cpan, but I think the environment Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:08:06 GMT Ben Bullock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4969 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4969 I've now put all the bits and pieces of this system for finding duplicate gairaigo online: https://github.com/benkasminbullock/edict-dups The instructions for Sat, 23 Mar 2013 07:23:09 GMT Jim Breen http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4968 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4968 ... I have turned Ben's list into a WWW page with links to the database edits for each entry, http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/fixgairaigo.html I removed the Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:00:10 GMT Ben Bullock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4967 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4967 ... I hand-edited it to remove many of them. I only noticed there were a lot left after I sent the mail. Fri, 22 Mar 2013 23:38:35 GMT Jim Breen http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4966 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/4966 ... Nice list. Very useful, thanks. A few false-positives, e.g. カタール/カタル タイガー/タイガ, but otherwise excellent. I'm running out of