Obviously the New Years J-Ben release didn’t happen. Anyway, I’m going to remove any tentative date on the software’s release, although I am continuing to work on it (as is evidenced by the git repository logs). I’ve been doing a lot of code reorg, but things are starting to look good. I’m also rethinking what’s [...]
The new year has nearly arrived, and with it, a small update. For family, I have some big personal news. I prefer not to say it publicly right now, but if you ask Mom, she can tell you what it is. Otherwise, ask me in an e-mail directly. I’ll update this in a couple of [...]
J-Ben development has certainly come along recently, with parsers now more-or-less working for KANJIDIC, KANJIDIC2, EDICT and JMdict. Unit tests are written and each of these are searchable, even if they do not have all the functionality and optimizations I’ve planned for. However, for my own study purposes, I think I’m going to shift focus [...]
This was a rough problem. I’m using Python’s SAX modules for parsing JMdict, and ran into a problem regarding its use of XML entities. Nothing wrong with JMdict, but the expansion is rather verbose and does not lend itself well to what I’m doing. I don’t want “word containing irregular kanji usage”, but rather, I [...]
It’s been quite some time since I’ve updated this blog, so today I’ll write a few words. My life’s been pretty busy as of late, preparing for job hunting here in Japan. I will be continuing to live here for a while longer; I am unsure how many more years. So, I’m beginning to search [...]