Re: [edict-jmdict] Kradfile2 is Finished

["Jim Breen" <jimbreen@*********>]

On 17/09/2007, Jim Rose <jim@kanjicafe.com> wrote:
>  If interested, you may now wget the finished kradfile2 here:
>
>  http://www.kanjicafe.com/kradfile2

Grabbed. Only had a quick glance, but it looks very nice.

>  All 5,801 kanji of the JIS X 0212 set have been broken down into
>  radicals/elements/sub-elements.  Each kanji was viewed in two fonts
>  which exhibited extreme differences in many glyphs.
>
>  I've set the license up, hopefully, so that Dr. Breen and the
>  Electronic Dictionary Research & Development Group can now become the
>  central distribution point of the file as well as central collection
>  point for edit suggestions and general improvements.

It's now bundled with the other files in the "kradzip.zip" on the Monash
ftp site, and is in the daily update/refresh of that file.

>  And hopefully a radfile2 can be cranked out soon and put on the auto-
>  updater?

Indeed. May take a little while, as I am time-poor right now. (*)

My tentative plans for turning kradfile2 into a radkfile are to produce
two versions; one for kradfile2 alone (in case anyone is interested) and one
for the combined kradfile+kradfile2. In WWWJDIC I propose to have the
multi-radical
lookup default to JIS208, and have a checkbox option of doing JIS212
as well. For
many users the additional hits on JIS212 kanji would be noise.

Thanks for this excellent work.

Jim

(*) (The weekend's competitive ballroom dancing shindig is over, but I have two
board meetings this week for which I am treasurer and have some
financial reports
to finalize, and then I have a 3-day computational linguistics workshop
(http://mandrake.csse.unimelb.edu.au/pacling2007/) followed by a weekend in the
country with friends. I also have to fit in some "letterboxing" for our imminent
general election. Never retire; you'll be too busy.)

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