Hi Sean, First of all, let me second what Hatukanezumi have said as a general reminder. This issue is really involved and I cannot come up with any easy automatic solution. That being said, most of the non-stub articles in Japanese Wikipedia contain the pronunciation of the title (when it contains Kanji) right after it is introduced in the body, the style recommended by ja-wp MOS. For example 「東ローマ帝国」 starts with > '''東ローマ帝国'''（ひがしローマていこく、[[395年]] - [[1453年]]）は、 ... i.e. the title in bold, then its pronunciation in Hiragana and Katakana followed by supplementary information enclosed in parenthesis. You still need to take care of abbreviation of Hiragana/Katakana part like "（-すう、英: Achilles number）" in 「 アキレス数」 and others.
cheers, Makoto Yamashita 2010/1/27 Hatukanezumi <[email protected]>: > Sean, > > 2010年1月27日16:46 Sean Moss-Pultz <[email protected]>: >> Hi List! >> >> This is Sean from Openmoko. We developed a product called WikiReader and >> would like to add a Japanese interface and input method. >> >> We're not sure how to properly search over the (Japanese) Wikipedia titles. >> It seems like most (but not all?) articles have the hiragana tags. Like: >> >> {{DEFAULTSORT:ひかしろまていこく}} for the article 東ローマ帝国 >> >> We need these to be able to generate our search index. (We don't have any >> ideas of other methods). Are these complete? Or if not, is there another >> method that somebody recommends? > > It is ``sort key'', not standing for proper reading of 東ローマ帝国: this title > shall be read as ひがしろーまていこく /hi ga shi ro o ma te i ko ku/ > while this key may be read as /hi ka shi ro ma te i ko ku/. In addition, > this key is simplified to ease confusion of editors over multiple sorting > methods used for Japanese language. > > I suppose it is insufficient to be used for search index. It cannot stand > for proper reading. Moreover, Japanese words occasionally don't have > obvious reading by nature of kanzi (漢字) used in Japanese text. > > I'd like to recommend you to communicate with developers of japanese > text processing and mobile or palmtop environments. As early as 1970s, > number of efficient input methods and searching techniques for Japanese > text are proposed and developed (of course some of them are open-source!). > > For more informations, please visit one of such Japanese communities. > > [Summary in Japanese] それはソートキーで、読みを正確に表して > いません。あと、漢字の読みがわからないとどうしようもありません。 > 日本語のテキスト処理や移動体端末、パームトップ端末なんかの開発者 > に相談してみてください。昔からいろんな方法が提案され、開発されて > ます。オープンソースのもあるし。 > > Regards, > >> Thanks in advance for the help! >> >> -Sean >> _______________________________________________ >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikija-l >> > > -- > --- Hatukanezumi > > _______________________________________________ > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikija-l > _______________________________________________ https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikija-l
