Re: [Lingo] inTransitive

["Jim Breen" <jimbreen@example.com>]

On 15/06/07, Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:
> On 15/06/07, Jim Breen <jimbreen@example.com> wrote:
>
> > One of my must-dos is have cross-refs between all the pairs of
> > transitive/intrans. verbs. Sadly Rikaichan uses the simple old EDICT
> > version which doesn't carry crossrefs. I've suggested they upgrade, inclluding
> > using the names file as well (Rikaichan tends to fall apart with names) but
> > there's been no response.
>
> I actually ported Rikaichan to Thunderbird, so maybe I can send the
> author a patch for the dictionary upgrade as well.

A big improvement would be to use the "glossdic" file from WWWJDIC (daily update
available via rsync). It combines EDICT, ENAMDICT and a heap of glossaries,
plus a lot of "specials" which attempt to resolve alternative reading versions.
It has about 830k entries.

Jim
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Jim Breen
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Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/