Re: [edict-jmdict] pos/misc entities

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

2008/6/12 Jean-Luc Leger <reiga@dspnet.fr.eu.org>:

> A real solution would be to add a new element around senses, because that's
> what we mostly do with those POSes spreading from sense to sense : we group
> senses.
> But the expected answer to this is : wait till the Master File has been
> moved
> into a Database.

なるほど. That's what many dictionaries do, but as you say, I
can't really consider it in the present rig.

> Yes and I would rather have data changed in the master file than modifying
> generators (the edict generator is now almost correct though some parts
> concerning POS and restrictions are so tricky they could easily become buggy
> again ..)

Yes, the EDICT generation is the tricky one. Making JMdict is simple,
because it's
mostly line-by-line formatting through a simple state machine. (And making
KANJIDIC2.xml is even simpler, because I designed the internal format with
the FSM in mind.) With EDICT generation more exceptions have to be considered,
e.g. deleting senses if there are restrictions, generating kanji/kana
combinations, etc. I don't like to touch it too much  as it's easy to break.

Jim

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Jim Breen
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Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
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