Re: [Ankur-core] Ankur's English to Bengali Dictionary
On 5/14/07, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: I have updated the interface of Ankur's E2B dictionary with Murshed's really nice BN Web tool. So now people can contribute new Bengali word without changing his/her keyboard layout and it should just work :-) http://www.bengalinux.org/cgi-bin/abhidhan/bdict.pl So please feel free to test it and post any suggestions that you may have. I have a single query: what are the things that you think are required to enhance, augment and make your effort more rich ? In my opinion, there are basically two fronts that require efforts. 1) First and most crucial one to have more contributors. Say, as a first target we want to have a dictionary which has 25,000 words (near same no of definitions that of Pocket Oxford dictionary). For that, we need to have roughly around 50,000 entries in our database (each parts of speech, are counted separately) Currently we have 11,000+ entries. So roughly 100 entries a day, will take us within this target in a year. On the other hand with current rate of roughly 10 entries a day will take ten years!! BTW, during Jamil-bhai's localization camp contributions goes up to few hundreds a day :-) 2) Second aspect is technical. As suggested by Dipankar-da, we can have more richer database. For example, for each entry (English word) apart from current field of Bengali meaning and Parts of speech, we can have more fields like Explanation (ব্যাখ্যা), Usage, Original Contributor, Last editor, etc... Currently, the database is in plain text. However, I have plans to switch into some good database back-end during the course. These are my current thoughts on it but I try to keep myself open to new ideas!! Golam --- http://www.gravity.psu.edu/~hossain/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bengalinux-core mailing list Bengalinux-core@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bengalinux-core
Re: [Ankur-core] Ankur's English to Bengali Dictionary
On 5/6/07, das [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. I usually use Probhat, with my Ubuntu keyboard set like this, 'Ctrl-Shift' changes the keyboard from English to Bangla or Bangla to English. Within the Bangla definition itself, at times, one may have to write some English characters or words, but, I don't know, it maybe my OS behaving that way, but within the text field my 'Ctrl-Shift' is not working. I cannot go to English within the field. Can this be changed? Please press [ESC]! Its written inside the 'help' near typing area!! Cheers, Golam - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bengalinux-core mailing list Bengalinux-core@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bengalinux-core
Re: [Ankur-core] Ankur's English to Bengali Dictionary
On 5/6/07, Golam Mortuza Hossain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have updated the interface of Ankur's E2B dictionary with Murshed's really nice BN Web tool. So now people can contribute new Bengali word without changing his/her keyboard layout and it should just work :-) http://www.bengalinux.org/cgi-bin/abhidhan/bdict.pl So please feel free to test it and post any suggestions that you may have. In April 2007, for first time Ankur E2B dictionary has reached five digit hits (11,927) per month. Of late, Google ranks it very highly for relevant terms and of course Google ranking is the main reason for the surge. Now, I would like to put a issue for discussion. Does use of Google AdSense would make any sense? What are the main moral/legal issues for/against it? Please feel free to share your frank opinions!! I have nothing against making money, but the question is who makes it? who pays taxes? etc. I'm not really sure how other open source projects deal with this. It's probably not a big issue for projects essentially run by individuals. Some projects create some sort of legal entity that handles the money. I don't know if going that far is worth it for us. Then there's the question of what's going to be done with the money, which is a whole different issue. -Deepayan - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bengalinux-core mailing list Bengalinux-core@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bengalinux-core
