Re: [edict-jmdict] WWWJDIC testbed

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

2008/6/23 Francis Bond <bond@ieee.org>:
> The test page looks fine to me, but using it reminded me of a further
> feature request --- I normally look things up in edict, and then if I
> can't find it change to the_lot. I would think this is quite a common
> approach. Would it be possible to automatically search the_lot if
> there was nothing found in edict? Does anyone else think this would
> be useful?

For some people a partial match is sufficient. I often throw it a long
jukugo fully aware that it will only mtch the first 2 or 4 kanji.

What I have done (now working in the wwwjdic2 testbed) is add a link:
"or search all dictionaries"  when there has been a partial match, so
that a search of the_lot for the given keyword is just a click away. Does
that fit the bill?

Now I need to consider whether the option of "promoting" entries from
"the_lot" is appropriate. I suspect it is.

Cheers

Jim

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