Friends, This post is regarding the ankur's "Bengali Dictionary Project". In particular, how it may be possible to put the dictionary project "back on track" and how "anubadok" can become an useful tool in making it so.
Undoubtedly (at least for me), a successful dictionary project is one of the core requirements for having a meaningful Bengali language support. I think, it is true for any language. I understand that it is mainly a data-entry job, so its kind of boring :-)). In such situation, it is rather suggestive that we make it more spicy or make it a "by product" of something else that is "not so boring" :-). First of all, many (almost all) of the volunteers here, actively participate in translating the POT files. Here, I would like suggest that one can use "po_anubadok" for doing the data-entry job. When one runs it for the first time for a given pot file, it creates "new_words.list". Then one needs to translate these words and run the program again. One can subsequently edit the po file. Let me emphasize that this process involves much less typing compared to translating a pot file by hand. Also, in its current avatar, "po_anubadok" can perform fairly well for pot files. This is mainly due to the fact that the strings those appear in PO files are generally much simpler in their sentence structure. So, to summarize this point, if you use the translator for translating the pot file then the EVERY SINGLE WORD THAT YOU TRANSLATE, SERVES DUAL PURPOSES. Firstly, you are translating your PO file and at the same time you are contributing to the dictionary project as a "by product". Secondly, the volunteers who are involved with the Bengali Wikipedia (translating/creating ), are also potential users who can contribute significantly to the Bengali dictionary project and again as "by product". I am right now trying to find out what are the technical requirements for a reasonable "wiki_anubadok". So if you have any suggestion in this regard, please feel free to post. It will be quite helpful for me. I am inviting a discussion on the above suggestions from you all, specially from the current lead(s) of dictionary project to post comments, criticism, further suggestions... Cheers, golam ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 _______________________________________________ Bengalinux-core mailing list Bengalinux-core@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bengalinux-core
