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Testing New Corgilabs Dictionary Tool


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Looks very promising, and I like the layout of the results. Very clean and easy to read. Only played with it a little but a couple of things immedately:

1. Syllables need to be seperated with a space. Hence 'ying guo' works, but 'yingguo' doesn't.

2. (Actually scratch 2, if I get the tones right it actually works)

3. Dictionary seems a little spotty. Entering 猫 finds 熊猫 but not 猫. Searching on 咖 finds 星巴克咖啡 Starbucks Coffee but not 咖啡 coffee!

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The Giant Flashcards are not reliable ->

请椒 (qǐng jiāo / green pepper) ??? (Shouldn't it be 青 qīng?)

白萝卜 (bái luó bǔ / turnip) ??? (I think it is bo)

蚕豆 (tiǎn dòu / kidney beans) !!! (蚕 is cán, right?)

Unacceptable IMHO ...

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thanks, skylee

yes! many are very wrong ... these are machine-entered. no human editing,,, this is an experiment. i'm writing a character recognition plugin and a hanzi to pinyin converter... i agree. this is terrible...

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Am I wrong in thinking that the photo on the front page shows four girls wearing Japanese dress?

john :o) yes? don't you just love that photo? i do.

请椒 (qǐng jiāo / green pepper) ??? (Shouldn't it be 青 qīng?)

白萝卜 (bái luó bǔ / turnip) ??? (I think it is bo)

蚕豆 (tiǎn dòu / kidney beans) !!! (蚕 is cán, right?)

Unacceptable IMHO ...

skylee, these entries have an average score of 12% from editor approval. ;-) i've reset the bar for available flashcards at 90% (which means only time words and colors will pass)...

http://www.corgilabs.com/flashcards/

i'll be more careful about this in the future. i was thinking about writing a program where editors can login to their accounts and build their own vocabularies while scoring each entry. will people do this for free? or do i need to bribe them?

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I heard about it a few days ago and really like it. I love being able to input numbers and dates.

It seems short format dates don't work. 2006/07/30.

The thing I would like most is for the characters to use a font. They're currently pictures.

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Re the giant flashcards. I've found the following which I think should be corrected ->

五月 - wǔ yué / May [yué (X) / yuè (O)] [same for the other months]

礼拜日 - lǐ bǎi rì / Sunday [bǎi (X) / bài (O)] [same for the other days]

礼拜 - lǐ bǎi / a week (of time) [bǎi (X) / bài (O)]

一刻中 - yī kè zhōng / a quarter of an hour [中 (X) / 钟 (O)] ]Same for 三刻中}

准时 - chí dào / on time; punctual [chí dào (X) / zhǔn shí (O)] :roll:

迟到 - zhǔn shí / late; behind schedule [zhǔn shí (X) / chí dào (O)] :roll::roll:

秋天 - qiú tián / fall; autumn [qiú (X) / qiū (O)]

夜里 - y3 lì / night [y3 (X) / yè(O)]

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3. Dictionary seems a little spotty. Entering 猫 finds 熊猫 but not 猫. Searching on 咖 finds 星巴克咖啡 Starbucks Coffee but not 咖啡 coffee!

yingguoguy corgibot learned ITEM 3 this week. :D finally.

五月 - wǔ yué / May [yué (X) / yuè (O)] [same for the other months]

礼拜日 - lǐ bǎi rì / Sunday [bǎi (X) / bài (O)] [same for the other days]

礼拜 - lǐ bǎi / a week (of time) [bǎi (X) / bài (O)]

一刻中 - yī kè zhōng / a quarter of an hour [中 (X) / 钟 (O)] ]Same for 三刻中}

准时 - chí dào / on time; punctual [chí dào (X) / zhǔn shí (O)]

迟到 - zhǔn shí / late; behind schedule [zhǔn shí (X) / chí dào (O)]

秋天 - qiú tián / fall; autumn [qiú (X) / qiū (O)]

夜里 - y3 lì / night [y3 (X) / yè(O)]

patience.:wink: corgibot is getting smarter. it's a silly dog.

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请椒 (qǐng jiāo / green pepper) ??? (Shouldn't it be 青 qīng?)

白萝卜 (bái luó bǔ / turnip) ??? (I think it is bo)

蚕豆 (tiǎn dòu / kidney beans) !!! (蚕 is cán, right?)

Unacceptable IMHO ...

Thank you again, Skylee.

Try the flashcards again

http://www.corgilabs.com/flashcards/

something to note... all the errors before were done by native Chinese speakers. it still fascinates me that every discussion of pinyin teaches me something new.

the speakers were 97% confident about their pinyin tone marks. :D i still have much to learn about how native speakers grasp pinyin.

i have now used a more "standard" variation of different romanizations... enjoy.

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