Re: [edict-jmdict] Re: Database testing - call for testers

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

On 11 June 2010 06:09, Stuart McGraw <smcg4191@frii.com> wrote:
> > On 10 June 2010 19:11, Jeroen Hoek <mail@jeroenhoek.nl> wrote:
> >> A small request: the search field for the simple search defaults to
> >> search type "is". Wouldn't "starts" make for a better default here?
[...]
> Seems reasonable to me, but a couple points come to mind...
>
> It will often mean in general an extra click if one really is
> looking for an exact match -- either to select "is" in the search
> form, or getting multiple results requiring selecting the desired
> one to look at.

I think that's OK.

> Also, currently both the search results list, and the full entries
> page are either not sorted or sorted by entry id or seq number or
> some such (I've forgotten at the moment) but definitely not lexically
> which might require visually scanning the search results list for
> the entry one is interested in.

Some sort of lexical ordering is best.

In WWWJIC it's the ordering implied by the tokens on which the
search was done, i.e. by kana for a kana search and kanji for a
kanji one. I suspect with the database we'll have to settle for just one?

Jim



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Jim Breen
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Graduate student: Language Technology Group, University of Melbourne