Thanks for raising this. There is discussion going on among the JMdict
editors about revisions to the structure, and I'll make sure this
issue gets
fixed as part of it. I've known about for the problem for years but I
admit
it's not been on my fix-it list. It is now.
At present the JMdict format handles cross-references in the following
form
(quoting entry 1262990):
<xref>スライド・1</xref>
I envisage it moving to something like:
<xref type="see" seq="1073760" sno="1">スライド・1</xref>
That should enable apps using JMdict to do the linkage correctly and
allow derived formats such as EDICT to continue as before.
It may be quite a while before the new structure is available. I was
planning
to make a call for suggestions via this list shortly. I also think we
should
warn app developers well in advance. Something that could be explored
is
parallel production of "old" and "new" JMdicts for a transition
period.
Cheers
Jim
On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 at 01:42, 'Adam Nohejl' adam@nohejl.name
[edict-jmdict] <edict-jmdict@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Hi,
I would like to use JMDict as one of the data sources for a
dictionary app. I have noticed that some of the cross-references
between entries (xref/ant elements) cannot be resolved without
ambiguity:
A few examples:
<xref>何れ・1</xref> may refer to ent_seq 1009290, 1566210 (both
have multiple senses)
<xref>因・2</xref> may refer to ent_seq 1168640, 1541760, 1922790
(all have multiple senses)
<xref>駆ける・かける・1</xref> may refer to ent_seq 1244720,
1570710 (and the reading does not help to disambiguate)
There are dozens more. I have also noticed that a popular iOS app
Imiwa that uses JMDict often points the user to the wrong entry, so
it's not just my problem.
I can see from the web search that you internally refer to the
ent_seq IDs, but it's missing from the available XML file:
<xref type="see" seq="1009290">何れ・1</xref>
http://www.edrdg.org/jmdictdb/cgi-bin/entr.py?svc=jmdict&sid=&disp=xml&e=2006359
Is there any chance to get a file with non-ambiguous references?
Best regards,
--
Adam
--
Jim Breen
Adjunct Snr Research Fellow, Japanese Studies Centre, Monash
University
http://www.jimbreen.org/
http://nihongo.monash.edu/