Hi All, I am happy to announce the 'official launch' of the brand new interface of Ankur's English to Bengali dictionary.
http://www.bengalinux.org/cgi-bin/abhidhan/index.pl Old "bdict.pl" link will point to the new interface for backward compatibility. Main features: * Dictionary back-end is now powered by MySQL database system. * Front-end has been enhanced by using CSS, 'bnwebtools'. * Dictionary search now includes lemma-based search results by default. For example, if you search for the word "thought" then it will also give you results using "think". * To remove certain type of duplications, couple of thousand entries from old database have been excluded. So number of 'EDITED' entries in the database now stands at 10,001. * Users can register themselves as members. Every users (registered/unregistered) can contribute but only members with rank of 'EDITOR' are allowed to take final decision. * 'About page' of the dictionary has been re-written. Please have a look and let me know any correction/suggestion on this page. * This dictionary is now "numero uno" in Google's pagerank for the most relevant search string "english to bengali dictionary". Naturally, dictionary access has now doubled to more than 20k hits per month. Dipankar-da: Given your suggestions have been instrumental for this upgrade, I would like to propose your name to be the "chief editor" of Ankur's Abhidhan. You will be taking mostly editorial decisions. I will continue to do the technical maintainance. Please feel free to post your comments/suggestions. Cheers Golam -- http://gravity.psu.edu/~hossain/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Bengalinux-core mailing list Bengalinux-core@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bengalinux-core
