Before launch, we asked a team of international Googlers to assess quality.
We could reach out to that group again. Anders Sandholm coordinated that
effort and would be a good person to reach out to if we want to repeat it.
2009/10/28 Hironori Bono (坊野 博典) <hb...@chromium.org>
>
> Hi Evan,
>
> Thank you for your feedback.
>
> 2009/10/28 Evan Martin <e...@chromium.org>:
>
> > 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: hb...@chromium.org
>
> >
>
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