--- Forwarded Message from Richard Kunst <[log in to unmask]> ---
>From: Richard Kunst <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]>
>Cc: "C. Ratcliff" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #4873 Asian lang. online dictionaries
>In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 13:35:59 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
>Priority: NORMAL
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On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 17:08:08 EST LLTI-Editor
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Is there anyone who knows of online dictionaries for Chinese, Japanese,
> Korean, Indonesian, Thai, or Hindic languages which allows one to perform
> so-called "wild card" searches?
Christian-
The on-line dictionary engine which is part of the WinCALIS/UniEdit
system does what you are seeking, although it is not quite as
flexible as a fully wild card-based system. You can search for words
which contain strings of 1 or more Han characters (kanji); 2 or more
Japanese kana characters; or 3 or more alphabetic characters (*any*
alphabet). The characters can be in any position in a word. The
search can be limited to whole words (bounded by spaces or predefined
delimiters, such as zero-width spaces or "joiners") or the beginning
of words (to ignore inflection, since there is no automatic
lemmatization), or the search can be unlimited.
As for dictionaries using this system, at the moment I am only aware
of dictionaries of any useful size for Japanese-and-English (the Jim
Breen dictionary database of 105,000 entries--mostly proper nouns)
and Korean-and-English (25,000+ entries), which we at Duke distribute
-- there may be more out there. But the WinCALIS/UniEdit dictionary
engine can be applied to *any* Unicode-encoded text database which
has been formatted in a specific way (newline = record separator, '/'
= field separator). Thus if you have a database of lexical
information for, say, Indonesian, or Bengali, if you format it as
above, then run the automatic indexer, you could then use the
dictionary engine to search it the way you desire.
I have perhaps jumped to a conclusion about your use of "online." The
above dictionary engine is for use on-line in Windows, but not on the
Web, at least at the moment (although we could certainly adapt it so
that a Java client like Java WebCALIS or Java UniEdit could make use
of it--just haven't gotten around to that yet.
One good way to get the dictionary engine, along with documentation
and the Japanese and Korean dictionaries, is to download the Uniedit
or WinCALIS Author Tryout Editions from our Website,
http://www.lang.duke.edu. Contact me directly for more information. I
would welcome an incentive to make the newest 32-bit Dictionary
Module available for download, since it can exchange Unicode text
data on the clipboard nicely with other Unicode apps such as MS
Office, MSIE, and Netscape. Thus you can highlight text in a Web
browser and look it up using the WinCALIS/UniEdit dictionary engine.
Best,
Rick Kunst
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