Re: [edict-jmdict] Wish List Item

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

On 02/10/2007, Jim Rose <jim@kanjicafe.com> wrote:
> One item I would like to see implemented soon with this project would
>  be a bulk word checker which you could drop a couple hundred words
>  into a text box, and a list would be returned of every word not
>  currently in JMDICT.

You more-or-less get that with the Translate Words function of WWWJDIC:
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?9T

For example, I just put in:

割り戻し
破れ鐘
若鳥
吾亦紅

And it responded:

    * 割り戻し金 【わりもどしきん】 (n) rebate money; ED [Partial Match!]
    * 破れ鐘 【われがね】 (n) cracked bell; ED
    * 若鳥 【わかとり】 Wakatori (s) NA
    * 吾亦紅 【われもこう】 Waremokou (g) NA

That told me what I wanted to know. (若鳥 and 吾亦紅 are variants of existing
JMdict entries.)

>  Its an incredibly inefficient use of time when
>  you have a list of words with definitions, and have to check each and
>  every one - one at a time - to see if somebody already defined it or
>  not.  If I could drop a list of 100 words, and get back a page
>  telling me which dozen or so are not yet in the dictionary, it would
>  focus my time with much greater efficiency.

成る程. In fact I don't use WWWJDIC for this purpose, as I keep my old
xjdic running in a kterm window, and I only have to paste a word into it
to get back its matches (if any) in a heap of files.

As Paul pointed out, local solutions to your requirements are probably better
than a WWW one.

Cheers

Jim

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