Re: [edict-jmdict] Verb Compounds

["Paul Blay" <blay.paul@**************>]

> Not wishing to be critical and hoping to be helpful, I have
> nevertheless noticed a weakness in the Edict corpus: so very
> few verb compounds.

A crude comparison of some common auxiliary verbs between Edict
and 大辞林 showed the latter has a significant and consistent
lead.

On the other hand 大辞林 just has more entries in the first
place (something around 230,000 compared to Edict's 100,000
odd).  If anything Edict probably has more compound verbs
on a proportional basis.

I personally would welcome the submission of compound words
of significance to Edict.  However simply adding productive
auxiliary verbs or adjectives to everything they can go on would
not strike me as a very sensible use of time.