Hi all, I am planning to replace the current text-file database of Ankur's English to Bengali Dictionary by a more formal database.
I am thinking of using SQLite3 as database back-end. Perl binding for SQLite is available, so it will make the transition easy. I am proposing following fields for each row of the database table. Please feel free to give your suggestions for more fields or anything else that you think will be useful. =============== id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, en_word TEXT, pos_tag TEXT, bn_word TEXT, pronunciation TEXT, explanation TEXT, example TEXT, original_contributor TEXT, last_editor TEXT status TEXT =============== Let me give an explicit example: ================ id="123", en_word="critical", pos_tag="JJ", ( Penn TreeBank parts-of-speech tag for "adjective") bn_word="সঙ্কটজনক", pronunciation="saṅkaṭ-janok", explanation="অতি প্রতিকূল বা কঠিন অবস্হা", example="তার শারীরিক অবস্থা এখন সঙ্কটজনক।", original_contributor="Some good fellow", last_editor="Another good fellow", status="Unedited" ================ For each different Bengali meaning of a given English word there will be different row (entry) in the database. Having a different field for "explanation" from "bn_word" will allow the machine translator to use the same database. "original_contributor" field will help to find out the contributions by a given user (was suggested by Dipankar-da). So please feel free to post your comments/suggestions... Cheers, Golam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bengalinux-core mailing list Bengalinux-core@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bengalinux-core
