Re: [edict-jmdict] Vocabulary Relationships and Important Links

["Francis Bond" <bond@********>]

G'day,

Nice ideas.

> 1) to suggest a link between Synonyms and Antonyms.
> Antonym Example: &#21033;&#30410; <--> &#25613;&#22833;
> Note: While we can get involved in nuance parsing, posturing, etc. as
> to the "exactness" of these relationships, it would be most useful for
> the user to find immediately an opposite(s). Thirty years in the field
> of language acquisition and education tells me so.

I have generated a list of 51,302 antonym pairs from the Japanese WordNet (Bond et al. 2008)
<http://www2.nict.go.jp/x/x161/en/member/bond/bib.html#Bond:Isahara:Kanzaki:Uchimoto:2008>.
The whole thing should be released real soon now (^_^).

The list is just pairs, like this:
熱い	寒い
熱い	冷ややか
熱い	冷々たる
熱い	お寒い
熱い	寒冷
熱い	冷冷たる
熱い	冷やか
熱い	冷寒
熱い	御寒い
熱い	冷たい
暑い	寒い
暑い	冷ややか
暑い	冷々たる
暑い	お寒い
暑い	寒冷
暑い	冷冷たる
暑い	冷やか
暑い	冷寒
暑い	御寒い
暑い	冷たい
熱い	無愛想
熱い	よそよそしい
熱い	他所他所しい
熱い	けんもほろろ
熱い	他人行儀
熱い	無情
熱い	つれない
熱い	冷淡

Note that it links core uses (熱い 寒い) and metaphorical uses (熱い 無愛想).

Please feel free to use it as a basis for adding antonym links.  

I would also very much appreciate feedback on individual entries.  Please email it directly to me <bond@********>, unless you feel it is especially relevant to Edict.

> 2) to suggest a link between transitives and intransitives.
> Example: &#20786;&#12363;&#12427; and &#20786;&#12369;&#12427;

We have some of these in the JACY lexicon, I could provide a list on request:

agaru_intrans-stem := intrans-c-stem-lex &
 [ STEM < "上る" >,
   SYNSEM.LKEYS.KEYREL.PRED "_agaru_v_inchoative_rel" ].

agaru_trans-a-stem := v1-c-stem-lex &
 [ STEM < "上がる" >,
   SYNSEM.LKEYS.KEYREL.PRED "_agaru_v_causative_rel" ].

> 3) Classify this under "Wishing and Hoping" (in vain) but I would like
> to see many if not most of the +suru (noun + suru = verb) separately
> articulated as in other online dictionaries.

This is also one of my wishlists, I would be happy to produce a list of potential new entries, but I would expect there to be some tens of thousands.   I think some kind of strategy for automatic validation would be useful.

> However, the first two suggestions are something we can all get
> started on and work on at our "leisure". What I am suggesting is
> Simply a Link - and not a lengthy discussion.
>
> Color: Red for Antonym and Green for Synonym could be useful.

I must admit I like a little color in my links、although I am not sure it improves it here:

寒い 【さむい(P); さぶい】  (adj-i) (ant: 暑い) cold (e.g. weather); (P) 	[Ex][jeKai][G][GI][S][A][W]

    
 この寒さにはもう耐えられない。	I can no longer stand the cold.[F]

 
I look forward to it being clickable,

-- 
Francis Bond <http://www2.nict.go.jp/x/x161/en/member/bond/>
NICT Computational Linguistics Group

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