From: Piya Tan
Message: 10822
Date: 2006-10-09
On 10/8/06, Lennart Lopin <lenni_lop@...> wrote:
>
> Dear Ole,
>
> Thank you for your positive feedback! First of all its quite sad to hear
> that the CPD is "officially" going to be discontinued but then - progress
> was very slow during the recent years, wasn't it? At least i did not hear
> much about it. Secondly: it would be a great honor for me if i could lend
> you a hand and make any helpful contribution. We can discuss any details
> about extraction of words from the Patimokkha if you like (please reply to
> palireader [at] gmail [dot] com for off - newsgroup discussion) . I think it
> wont be such a difficult task because - due to the development of the Pali
> Text Reader - we already developed some pali specialized corpus handling
> tools (i.e. our pali-alphabetical sorting algorithm etc.)
>
> Some questions for a starter:
>
> 1.) which editions you are going to use (it might be necessary to make an
> automated diff-list to see, which words differ in those editions of the
> Patimokkha) - VRI, Thai and Sinhalese editions are all electronically
> available, so they could be used
>
> 2.) Extraction of unique terms is no problem. I could also generate a
> reverse sorted list, so its easier to edit them according to "grammatical
> class"
>
> Finally, i have a question regarding the licensing of the CPD. Is it or
> will it be "open source". I am asking, because till now, we use the
> Buddhadatta's dictionary for instance in the Pali Text Reader because the
> PED is still "closed for redistribution" due to copyright issues. Does the
> same apply to the CPD? Or wont it be a problem to use the CPD later on in
> open source applications?
>
> mettâya,
>
> Lennart
>
> ----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----
> Von: Ole Holten Pind <oleholtenpind@... <oleholtenpind%40mail.dk>>
> An: Pali@yahoogroups.com <Pali%40yahoogroups.com>
> Gesendet: Freitag, den 6. Oktober 2006, 12:56:50 Uhr
> Betreff: SV: [Pali] frequency sorted Pali word list
>
> Many thanks Lennart. I am planning to continue the Critical Pali
> Dictionary,
> Copenhagen 1924-, which, unfortunately, is to be discontinued. At the
> moment I am involved in making the CPD available on the server of the
> University of Copenhagen and turning the project into a netbased
> dictionary.
> This will take some time, but it should be available in the near future.
> My
> plan is continue the CPD covering the complete vocabulary of one canonical
> text at the time. In this way one gets around the problem of not covering
> the complete vocabulary of the canon before the last volume has been
> published in the remote future. My first choise is the vocabulary of the
> Patimokkha. Would it be possible for you to extract the total vocabulary
> of
> this important text ? That would be an important contribution to Pali
> lexicography. It could be published as an overview of the vocabulary, and
> serve as an introduction to the subsequent lexicographical treatment.
>
> Ole Pind
>
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> lenni_lop
> Sendt: 6. oktober 2006 01:38
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> Emne: [Pali] frequency sorted Pali word list
>
> Dear friends in Dhamma,
>
> Just uploaded a zip file containing a comprehensive Pali word list
> sorted by frequency. Anyone interested, feel free to download and use
> for whatever purpose:
>
> http://www.nibbanam
> <http://www.nibbanam .com/pali_ language_ tools.html# freqList>
> .com/pali_language_ tools.html# freqList
>
> mettâya,
>
> Lennart
>
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