Subject: Phrase list available

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 91 03:42:36 MDT

One of the recent projects here at the Computing Research Labs was a
machine translation system that translates between Chinese, English,
German, Japanese, and Spanish.

One of the MT researchers, Dr. Jin Wanying, has input a number of
Chinese phrases for the Chinese lexicon part of the MT system.

The current phrase list, in 8-bit GB format is now available from our
anonymous ftp site.  The phrase list is formatted like this:

<Pinyin> <GB> ...

(Pinyin followed by a space, followed by a space separated list of
8-bit GB format phrases)

One word of warning: the Pinyin does not have tone numbers.  I will be
generating another list with tone numbers, and a Big5 list later next
week.

The list currently has about 3300 phrases, some of them are from the
ChTeX CiDian file, but most of them entered by Dr. Jin, and when we
finish with the basic Chinese lexicon, we should have about 10,000 to
12,000 phrases available.

If anyone would like to provide more entries to add to the list, I
would really like a copy!  We have an incoming/ directory if you want
to supply additions by anonymous ftp, or you can send me email.

crl.nmsu.edu:pub/chinese/gb-phrase-list.Z  [128.123.1.14]

(Our incoming directory)
crl.nmsu.edu:incoming/

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From: Lars-Erik Fredriksson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 91 09:53:33 +0200

Hi Mark and others,

I have been working for a long period of time with inputmethods and I guess
the best way to go is to make all of it available in the public domain. I guess
I have about +10.000 cihui inputted and I am using it aswell as swveral
sinologues around europe ( I gave away testversions of it ) I use it with
Ed Lai's beautiful cihui input method for the mac but I guess the format
could be tweaked to be used in Yitien or BYX or under X. I guess all of the
vocab is not general nad I think it will only be meaningful to put this
up in a way that additions can be made for all to use in a good way. I insist
that tones should be there and it is up to the input-method to be smart enough
to disregard from them when they are not supplied. I also think that any
substantial addition should be made stating the sources or the authority
whereupon it was based ( i.e. a specialized dictionary or : I really know
a lot of expressions from the underworld and liumangs of Beijing so this is
based on all I know about that, or something ... ;-) The thing I have that
I could think would be interesting for most people is based on a frequency
study of cihui used in chinese educational material called:

	Hanyu cihui de tongji yu fenxi.
by:

	/ Beijing yuyan xueyuan yuyan jiaoxue yanjiusuo, bian. - Beijing :
	Waiyu jiaoxue yu yanjiu chubanshe, 1985. - 1079 p.

If there is an interest for this I will be putting it up for anonymous
FTP so tell me what you think about it. I also have some specialized
wordlists but first things first because I don't think it is so useful
to do this if we cannot make additions in a more useful and organized way

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