That's what I meant by having people build the list rather than some automated procedure. Actually, I was thinking more of an extension of the index rather than the dictionary. I realize that this thread is concerned about the dictionary and what I am saying does not apply. So I'll drop it. Maybe I'll play with it myself for a while.
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 7:57 PM, bill lam <bbill....@gmail.com> wrote: > That should be beyond the capacity of a dictionary. Suppose a person > who does not know grammer or some idiomatic expression, a dictionary > alone does not help. Taking the analogy that Bill Harris suggested, > for the sentence, > > Ich weiss nicht wo ich den Stock gelassen habe; haben Sie ihn nicht > gesehen? > > Anyone who did not speak or understand German, after searching > for each word separately in a dictionary, would produce the following > farrago of nonsense: > > I ; white; not; where; I; - ; stick; dispassionate; property; to have; > she, they, you; - ; not; - ? > > sab, 30 Jan 2010, Don Guinn skribis: > > I was thinking more of a manual process, being constructed as people > attempt > > to find something using some keyword or phrase to find something in J. > > Automated processes have a hard time figuring out or second guessing what > a > > person is looking for. In my example there are probably other tools in J > > that could relate to indexing. But maybe this list below is a little too > > much. I don't know. But I found the difficult way to search for something > on > > the tip of my tongue but wouldn't come out. > > > > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 6:35 PM, bill lam <bbill....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > [---=| TOFU protection by t-prot: 27 lines snipped |=---] > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
