Hi Evan, Thank you for your feedback.
2009/10/28 Evan Martin <[email protected]>: > It still might be worth soliciting feedback from users directly. For > example, if the new dictionary is missing a common word the above > measure would get a high count of "Add to Dictionary", and maybe users > could tell us about this. Counting a common word is a good option for English. On the other hand, I'm wondering how much this idea works for case languages, such as Russian, Polish, etc. For example, a Russian noun has six cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, prepositional, and instrumental) and each noun changes its form according to the case and number. For example, a masculine noun "стол" (table) has six forms: "стол", "стол", "стола", "столу", "столе", and "столом". If a noun is countable, its plural form "столы" (tables) also has six forms: "столы", "столы", "столов", "столам", "столах", "столами". So, when we count each form as a separated "dictionary word", the frequency count of a Russian word statistically (*1) becomes 1/6 of an English word. To write more about Russian, a Russian noun has three genders (masculine, feminine, and neutral) and each adjective has to change its form according to the gender and the case of a noun being qualified. That is, the frequency count of a Russian adjective statistically becomes 1/(3*6) = 1/18 of an English adjective. (This is a reason why our "ru_RU.dic_delta" file doesn't have adjectives.) If we can add an option menu so that a user can choose such grammatical information when the user adds a word, it definitely helps. (*1) In reality, some cases (nominative) are used more often than other cases. Regards, Hironori Bono E-mail: [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
