[sword-devel] Chinese

[David Burry]

In my opinion Chinese should be considered as if every
character were a separate independant word, for the
purposes of indexing for quick searching.  Then if you can
also search for exact phrases and a phrase search is the
"default operator" when you specify nothing between the
words, then that becomes easy and natural to search for
compound words (some words are made up of multiple smaller
words in Chinese) as they can be treated internally as if
they were phrases of words.  All that would remain is to
detect word boundaries at the edges of spaces for western
language words (well, technically, at the edges of western
letter groupings, in case it's mixed with punctuation or
chinese) and for every character in Chinese.

Anyway, that's my opinion on how a simple ideal Chinese
Bible search system could work.  I realize implementation
is not always so easy, so I won't fret if it doesn't happen
this way, but ya gotta start with an ideal goal or you'll
never get there...

Dave



On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 07:52:11 -0600 (MDT)
 Steve Tang <ctang@nyx.net> wrote:
> I made ChiUn & ChiUns. They are in good shape as far as I
> know. Though I
> do have a few things on my 'to-do' list:
> 
> * spaces: There were some problems with searching (1.5.4
> I believe when I
> made them) w/o spaces. Plus spaces didn't increase file
> sizes or affect
> speed. I've noticed that in these two new NCV modules
> spaces were taken
> out - and I had problem searching with 156rc1.
> 
> I don't think I know enough to provide any insight into
> rendering Chinese.
> So before it is clear to me how these things are
> 'standardized' I'd just
> take functionality (search) over look (no spaces.)
> 
> * there are a few verses which didn't display right. But
> I'd say these two
> modules are in good enough shape for now compared to some
> of the other
> modules.
> 
> Sorry for the delayed response. I have 1st-hand
> experience with the 2003
> black-out and also boy, it's so hard to move with 2 young
> kids.
> 
> Steve Tang...
> 
> 
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> 
> > Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:13:06 -0700
> > From: "Troy A. Griffitts" <scribe@crosswire.org>
> > Reply-To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
> > To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
> > Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Chinese
> > 
> > We have 4 Chinese translations now! :)  Actually 2, but
> each in 2 
> > different scripts:
> > 
> > ChiNCVs
> > ChiNCVt
> > ChiUns
> > ChiUn
> > 
> > The first 2 are officially still in beta because they
> probably only work 
> > with 1.5.6, but we do have permission to freely
> distribute all of these 
> > Bibles.  The WorldWide Bible Society gave us permission
> to freely 
> > distribute the NCV and is actually including a CD of
> our software with 
> > their printed NCV/ESV parallel Bible-- so I hope it's
> in good shape.  I 
> > think they feel it is.
> > 
> > 	-Troy.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote:
> > > We have two Chinese modules. What kind of shape are
> they in? Are they
> > > releasable? The reason I ask is that I have a friend
> who needs a Chinese
> > > bible package to pass along to a friend of theirs.
> I'd hate to go through
> > > the trouble of burning a CD, mailing it, having them
> pass it along to the
> > > recipient, only to discover that it is not usable.
> > > 
> > > Also, it does not appear that there is a Chinese
> local file. Is anyone
> > > working on this?
> > > 
> > > by grace alone,
> > > 
> > > Don A. Elbourne Jr.
> > > http://elbourne.org
> > > 
> > > 
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