Subject: Re: Efficient Dictionary Look Up for Chinese Input Method

From: "Bruce H. Liu" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 1994 13:01:10 -0700

On Fri, 5 Aug 1994, Ng Liang Shing wrote:

> On Wed, 03 Aug 1994 16:33:30 -0400 (EDT), jaring!UTKVX.UTCC.UTK.EDU!ZHANG wrote:
> > Is there
> > a book or any kind document about this ? It doesn't have to be about Chinese,
> > For Chinese in particular, is there a freeware or
> > commerce-ware I can get/buy (my budget on this is about 500 bucks :-) ?
>
> I know of one pen input called "Shen2Diao1Bi3". It works under Eten. It is
> getting popular here.  The software driver is installed on top of Eten.  The
> hardware is of course a "pen" plus a drawing board.  The package is sold under
> $500, I think.  But as I know it, it works only under Eten.

The device Mr. Ng mentioned works under MS Chinese Windows too. It is
available in the U.S. for under $300.

There are also other similar products from other companys but I cannot
recall their names on top of my head.

>
> I first saw it last summer. To my delight, after a year it is still
> surviving, hence I think it is getting popular.
>
> Of course, one of my interest is to hack the hell out of its data binaries.
> But I don't this is simple because even if I can understand its data binaries,
> the analytical algorithm binaries would be very difficult if not impossible to
> decode without a proper documentation.
>
> But the real concern with me is that, company like this should license their
> product and resources to application developers or other systems developers.
>

I don't know if they have any licensing policy for that but have you
tried to contact with them? I think you should make the first move to
talk to them if you are serious about it.

>
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Bruce H. Liu
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