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the Todd Rudick/Rikai.com blog
12/20/2004
New method elevated to front-page
I turned the new javascript on on the front-page. Text you type in or any URLs you go to still uses the old code.
Pagesize is much smaller, so I can turn off compression. Plus, I don't need to parse the document on my side to add callbacks--that all happens on your end. Of course, I could have done some combination like send the definitions but have the other markup done on the client... Hmmm...
Double-clicking to add a word to the wordlist doesn't work currently. It's easy to add though, so expect that soon.
Do you like this? (does it make any difference?)
cheers,
Todd
Pagesize is much smaller, so I can turn off compression. Plus, I don't need to parse the document on my side to add callbacks--that all happens on your end. Of course, I could have done some combination like send the definitions but have the other markup done on the client... Hmmm...
Double-clicking to add a word to the wordlist doesn't work currently. It's easy to add though, so expect that soon.
Do you like this? (does it make any difference?)
cheers,
Todd
Comments:
I should add:
You can now point at any character (even hiragana) to see matches from that point. Parse the dang document yourself!
The wordlist is supported again. In fact, the support is better, since now you can mouseover the wordlist on the front-page (you couldn't before)
You can now point at any character (even hiragana) to see matches from that point. Parse the dang document yourself!
The wordlist is supported again. In fact, the support is better, since now you can mouseover the wordlist on the front-page (you couldn't before)
I think this works well.
BTW, I am wondering if there is some way to mine Google and find out the top 500 or 1000 kanji used in searches and returned in results. Does Google provide this kind of data?
BTW, I am wondering if there is some way to mine Google and find out the top 500 or 1000 kanji used in searches and returned in results. Does Google provide this kind of data?
# posted by 
: 5:49 PM
: 5:49 PM
They do print out the number of matches returned when you do a search--and they do have an API. But anyway, there's already some basic frequency ranking in kanjidic (I believe it came from an archive of Asahi news articles, so there is some "newspaper" bias. E.g., 塁 is the 534th most common Kanji).
What did you have in mind?
What did you have in mind?
Quite a nice feature addition! I too was taken with the Google Suggest idea. I'm still trying to make up my mind whether the ability to parse arbitrarily out-weighs what seems like a slightly longer delay (気のせい？). Probably leaning torwards he "useful" side though I think, since now I won't have to do separate searches with JDIC's Word Search for kana strings.
Just a personal view, but I'm not sure if I'll use the kanji-char-data-in-the-box info (w/ definition, stroke data, etc.) all that frequently though. If it helps speed things up not including that data, perhaps making this a toggle-able feature might be useful?
Unfortunately, the new Rikai doesn't seem to want to work with Opera (doesn't seem to work w/ ver 7 at all and half-heartedly with ver 8 beta). ;_;
I use your site all the time; thanks for making such a useful tool for everyone. Rikai really blew me away the first time I found it; especially compared to the other online translation sites I had used until then. Just nice, nice work. ^^
Just a personal view, but I'm not sure if I'll use the kanji-char-data-in-the-box info (w/ definition, stroke data, etc.) all that frequently though. If it helps speed things up not including that data, perhaps making this a toggle-able feature might be useful?
Unfortunately, the new Rikai doesn't seem to want to work with Opera (doesn't seem to work w/ ver 7 at all and half-heartedly with ver 8 beta). ;_;
I use your site all the time; thanks for making such a useful tool for everyone. Rikai really blew me away the first time I found it; especially compared to the other online translation sites I had used until then. Just nice, nice work. ^^
# posted by : 4:54 PM
: 4:54 PM
Follow up to the Google post...
I use the net a lot so am more interested in what people are doing on the net, and hence, the words they search for, either kanji or hiragana/katakana.
BTW, is there someplace I can find the ranked list of Kanji?
Is anyone managing an updated Slang dictionary?
I use the net a lot so am more interested in what people are doing on the net, and hence, the words they search for, either kanji or hiragana/katakana.
BTW, is there someplace I can find the ranked list of Kanji?
Is anyone managing an updated Slang dictionary?
# posted by : 5:31 PM
: 5:31 PM
> is there someplace I can find the ranked list of Kanji?
Yes, it's the "F" field in kanjidic, maintained by Jim Breen.
Yes, it's the "F" field in kanjidic, maintained by Jim Breen.
Todd, I'm a fan of 理解 and have used it for a long time now. I'm working on a site that parses every element of a Japanese sentence by tagging the word and determining what comes next from that. Thus I can break out verbs and postpositions. The project now is mostly busy work. I'm looking for some sponsorship or a way to mass import edict and kanjidic into my regular expression format. Have a look here. Advice?
http://www.geocities.com/renjapan1999/jtep.htm
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