Re: [edict-jmdict] SKIP license

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

2010/1/20 Ben Bullock <benkasminbullock@gmail.com>
> ...... SKIP is fairly useless
> when you want to search through a large set of characters. It only
> works with the restriction of a limited number of characters, such as
> the Jouyou kanji or the elementary school kanji. If you try to search
> through the six thousand characters in kanjidic via SKIP you'll
> probably end up giving up and trying something else.

I discovered that very quickly, which is why I added a filter for
常用漢字. It got even worse when I generated the SKIPs for the JIS212
kanji as well. It's even poorer for 12,000+ kanji.

Jim

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Jim Breen
Adjunct Snr Research Fellow, Clayton School of IT, Monash University
Treasurer: Hawthorn Rowing Club, VCA Secondary School, Japanese Studies Centre
Graduate student: Language Technology Group, University of Melbourne