Re: [edict-jmdict] adj-i/adj-ix issues

[s mcgraw <smcg6347@***********>]

On 03/06/2018 10:16 PM, Jim Breen jimbreen@gmail.com [edict-jmdict] wrote:
 > [...]
 > I don't really have a problem with having extended PoS tags to show they
 > inflect differently from the norm. I created a slew of these for verbs when
 > I was adding the inflection tables to wwwjdic: v1-s, v5aru, v5k-s, v5r-i,
 > v5u-s, v5uru, vk, vs-i, vs-s, vz. Where these differ from the 良い/よい/いい
 > brigade is that those verb inflections weren't easily deduced from the
 > surface forms, and in the adj-i(x) case the presence of 良い should be
 > enough for an app to make the correct decisions.

More similar to the 良い case perhaps are the regular v5* verbs (v5k, v5s,
etc).  They could all be condensed into a single "v5" part-of-speech and
distinguished by their surface forms ("…く", "…す", etc.)  Isn't that what
most Japanese dictionaries do?