Re: [tlug] a japanese dictionary

[Botond Botyanszki <tlug@example.com>]

On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 11:14:35 +0900
"Michael Engel" <mkengel@example.com> wrote:

> I have no idea how you are going to implement Kanji searches. There is
> a lot of research going on in this direction. How to search an unknown
> Kanji efficiently.
> 
> E.g., have a look at the following page:
> http://cantor.ish.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~julian/kansuke2.html
> Just play around with it - it's fun. They might licence it to you.

This is pretty neat and very easy to learn for beginners.

 
> Another approach is undertaken bei Hans-Joerg Bibiko.
> http://bibiko.de/
> He spoke about it on a recent workshop in Tokyo. By choosing graphemes
> and a database behind it which knows all graphemes in every kanji
> (ca.6000 Kanji), it is a very fast system for choosing a Kanji without
> having it at hand or knowing it. You choose a graphem and immediately
> you get information on the remaining possibilities, i.e. all the
> Kanjis with that graphem. You choose a second one - and most probably
> you already have the Kanji.

How is this different from software (xjdic, gjiten) using the radical data
in JWB's Kanjidic file?

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