tlug: Re: Glimpse support for Asian characters

[Dennis McMurchy <denismcm@example.com>]

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tlug note from Dennis McMurchy <denismcm@example.com>
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On Mon, 12 May 1997, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> And _this_ is the easy part.  Remember, Japanese is an extremely
> highly inflected language and does not use spaces to separate words.
> Unless your indexing program understands Japanese syntax, it is not
> clear how you would go about doing the indexing.

  For those who are interested in this subject of indexing Japanese
text, there is a research group at Kyoto Univ (?), I think it was,
who have a very large indexing program available on the net.

  The program is called juman, and 3.0 was the latest version I know
of.  They can be contacted at juman@example.com according
to the README file that came with juman 3.0.  I haven't used it at all,
so I can't comment on it in any useful way.  I would be very interested
in hearing more about it, though.  It basically relies on an enormous
dictionary to parse Japanese text. 

Dennis McMurchy, 
Tojinmachi, Fukuoka


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