ENAMDICT and WWWJDIC

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

Greetings,

I have made a change to the version of enamdict used by WWWJDIC. The
base enamdict
file has one kanji word and one reading per entry. Thus for 河辺 it has:

河辺 【あべ】 Abe (s)
河辺 【かべ】 Kabe (p,s)
河辺 【かわなべ】 Kawanabe
河辺 【かわのへ】 Kawanohe (s)
河辺 【かわべ】 Kawabe (p,s)
河辺 【かわべの】 Kawabeno (s)
河辺 【こうべ】 Koube (p,s)

A couple of years ago I wrote a utility to combine all the readings into the
one entry, and also I used some name-frequency data to force the more common
readings to the front. For 河辺 this version has:

河辺 【かわべ】 Kawabe (p,s) 【かわなべ】 Kawanabe (p,s) 【あべ】 Abe (s) 【かべ】 Kabe
(p,s) 【かわのへ】 Kawanohe (s) 【かわべの】 Kawabeno (s) 【こうべ】 Koube (p,s)

This modified version is the one used by WWWJDIC in the "glossdic"
file, which is
the default for the Translate Words function. I have decided there is no real
reason for not using it also as the main "enamdict" file within the
server too, as
getting the readings in a more-or-less frequency related order is of
benefit.  I made the
change earlier today, and it seems OK.

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/