Re: [edict-jmdict] Transifex French dictionary integration

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

Hello Pierre,

I had completely forgotten about that Transifex project (I blame age, which I
can do now that I've turned 70).

I dug out my password and logged into it. It seems a lot of good stuff has been
happening.

On 13 June 2017 at 21:34, pbaumard@gmail.com [edict-jmdict]
<edict-jmdict@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> Is there any plan to include the French dictionary from
> https://www.transifex.com/gnurou/jmdict-i18n/ into JMdict (see very old
> topic
> https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/edict-jmdict/conversations/topics/4564)
>
> English sources of Transifex JMdict project are updated weekly from JMdict
> file.
> French dictionary now includes all translations from JLPT N5 to JLPT N2 and
> other translations are on-going.

I downloaded a couple of the files from the N2, N3, etc, batches, and the format
is pretty clear. It would be relatively simple to include those
translations in JMdict.
I can see you have a lot of translations for entries that are not covered in
Jean-Marc Desperrier's old dictionary. Do you think yours should be a complete
replacement.

Also should I grab the lot, or just use the reviewed translations?

> By the way, the "other Languages" part of
> http://www.edrdg.org/jmdict/edict_doc.html#IREF06 with only 3 languages is
> completely out of date compared to current languages of JMdict:

Yes, a lot of the documentation is old. From time to time, I try and update
or consolidate it.

> A closer description of current languages seems to be
> http://www.edrdg.org/wwwjdic/wwwjdicinf.html#dicfil_tag
> even if there are some inaccuracies. For example the French dictionary at
> http://dico.fj.free.fr/ has not been actively supported for about 10 years.

Or longer. I've completely lost touch with him.
Let me know what you think is the best approach with incorporating the
translations.

Cheers

Jim

-- 
Jim Breen
Adjunct Snr Research Fellow, Japanese Studies Centre, Monash University