On 5/14/07, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > > I have updated the interface of Ankur's E2B dictionary with Murshed's > > really nice BN Web tool. So now people can contribute new Bengali > > word without changing his/her keyboard layout and it should "just work" > :-) > > > > http://www.bengalinux.org/cgi-bin/abhidhan/bdict.pl > > > > So please feel free to test it and post any suggestions that you > > may have. > > I have a single query: what are the things that you think are required > to enhance, augment and make your effort more rich ?
In my opinion, there are basically two fronts that require efforts. 1) First and most crucial one to have more contributors. Say, as a first target we want to have a dictionary which has 25,000 words (near same no of definitions that of Pocket Oxford dictionary). For that, we need to have roughly around 50,000 entries in our database (each parts of speech, are counted separately) Currently we have 11,000+ entries. So roughly 100 entries a day, will take us within this target in a year. On the other hand with current rate of roughly 10 entries a day will take ten years!! BTW, during Jamil-bhai's "localization camp" contributions goes up to few hundreds a day :-) 2) Second aspect is technical. As suggested by Dipankar-da, we can have more richer database. For example, for each entry (English word) apart from current field of "Bengali meaning" and "Parts of speech", we can have more fields like "Explanation (ব্যাখ্যা)", "Usage", "Original Contributor", "Last editor", etc... Currently, the database is in plain text. However, I have plans to switch into some good database back-end during the course. These are my current thoughts on it but I try to keep myself open to new ideas!! Golam --- http://www.gravity.psu.edu/~hossain/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
