December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
33h 22m
English
Content preview from CJKV Information Processing, 2nd Edition
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Chapter 11: Dictionaries and Dictionary Software
• Rick Harbaugh’s Chinese Character Genealogy (based on his soware called Zhongwen
Zipu)
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and Chinese Characters Dictionary Web (really cool because it links together
about a dozen web dictionaries).
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• Charles Muller’s CJKV-English Dictionary.
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• Erik Peterson’s Chinese-English Dictionary and Chinese Character Dictionary.
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KanjiBase• by Christian Wittern and Urs App.
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• Hongjie Xin’s ( xīn hóngjié) Online English-Chinese and Chinese-English
Dictionary.
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StarDict• , which is also available through a web interface.
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• Richard Cook’s frontend to e Unicode Consortium’s Unihan Database.
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Some of these web dictionaries—in particular, Charles Muller’s, Jim Breen’s, and Rick
Harbaugh’s—have been cross-linked at the character level. is represents an exciting de-
velopment in web-based lexicography.
Expect to nd more and more dictionaries accessible through the Web as time goes on.
In many ways, web-based dictionaries provide the best of both worlds. ey eective-
ly eliminate the platform issue, due to the inherent cross-platform nature of the Web.
All you need is a suitable web-browsing application that is running on a CJKV-enabled
OS, and you have a very convenient frontend to a large and growing number of useful
dictionaries.
Machine Translation Applications
Machine translation (MT) applications are
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