alexc@psueea.UUCP (Alex M. Chan.) (06/25/89)
A friend of mine is working on a Chinese-English translator. Needs: 1) Electronic bitmaps and copy of "The People's Republic of China National Standard code of Chinese Graphic Character Set for Information Interchange GB 2312-80" At least the primary 'ChASCII' set of 6763 characters. Any bitmap size from 24x24 thru 60x60 would help. 2) Electronic Chinese dictionary. Latest respected version in ChASCII or whatever is available. 3) Electronic English-Chinese dictionary. Prefer "A New English-Chinese Dictionary" with definitions in ChASCII code. Any such dictionary would help. 4) Electronic Chinese-English dictionary. In addition to regular dictionary text, need full definition of each ChASCII character including meanings of individual strokes and sub-characters, character combination rules including word formation and disallowed combinations, and context shift rules. 5) Electronic English dictionary. Prefer Webster's New World, Third edition, having 200,000 English words with definitions. (Publisher won t sell electronic version. Any electronic dictionary would help. 6) Electronic English Thesaurus and/or Chinese Thesaurus. Most have some different entries, so prefer combination, but any would help. 7) Chinese Natural Language Parser/Generator. Handle 150 common sentence types, distinguish word boundaries, parts of speech; whatever is available. 8) English Natural Language Parser/Generator. Would like state of the art aductive reasoning system but will take anything. Prefer Smalltalk, Lisp OK. 9) If available in the Northwest, a Chinese-English linguist to help on this project on a volunteer basis. Anyone who can either provide any of these pieces to the translator or who can refer me to a good source of any of these is encouraged to reply via E-mail ( sun!nosun!{qiclab|whizz}!tanya!kirk ) or via US MAIL to: Kirk W. Fraser, PO Box 1426, Beaverton, OR 97075 Thank you in advance. Sincerely, K. W. Fraser.