On Dec 2, 2007 8:09 AM, Golam Mortuza Hossain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
All sounds great! :)) > 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. Hope, there will be lots of surprising stuffs in future. :) > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
