Re: Adding gloss translations [Was: Re: [edict-jmdict] JMdict editing form]

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

2008/11/15 Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>:
> My apologies for being so long to get back to this. Finally, I got
> some reaction from dictionnaire-japonais.com, which seems to be
> positive, but unfortunately the maintainer told me he is very busy at
> the moment and will come back to this later. Just to let you know,
> anyway I'm staying tune about this and will ping the list if there is
> some news. If necessary I will harass him a little more. ;)

If it would make his life easier, it would be possible for someone here
who is inclined or interested to convert a file scraped from the
ictionnaire-japonais.com site into EDICt or JMdict format. They are sure to
have a dump facility somewhere. I see that an EDICT-format file ws generated
some time in the past. Perhaps he would respond to a request for a periodical
raw dump.

> I'm also looking forward for the database and editor stuff - if some
> help is needed somewhere, please let me know, I'd be glad to give a
> hand as much as my skills and time allow.

While we are on the subject of Japanese-French, a French version of the
kanji meanings for inclusion in the KANJIDIC family is well under way.
The guy doing it has just about completed the 常用漢字. From then on it
gets to be a bit more of a challenge as the only published French kanji
dictionaries (e.g. Martin) don't go past the 常用漢字.

I would like eventually to crank up a French version of WWWJDIC. I might
air it as a project on fr.lettres.langue.japonaise  The bulk of the
English/Japanese text is visible on
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwmessages

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/