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[Dwayne Bailey]

>>If you meant "why make it that complicated": the point is of course 
>>that the three data sets are used in different ways and for 
>>different purposes, not that the data has to be stored in different 
>>files, which is rather academic - but perhaps easier to handle 
>>mentally for the user.
> 
> 
> Yes, that was my question.

Isn't this that same as the idea I had of having multiple data sources 
for rough transaltion.  Eg for officail word transaltions, kde past 
work, etc.  Wouldn't it just then be adding a weighting on top of this 
to decide which source has precedence.

>>The approach has proven very flexible and efficient, with some 
>>unexpected results in how the system is actually used, thanks to its 
>>toolbox nature.
>>
>>DV uses the (proprietary) Dewey system for subject classification. 
>>Been looking around for an open source classification system, so far 
>>haven't found any I thought were usable enough.

Do you mean the Dewey decimal system that they use for clasifying 
library books?  Is that relly proprietray?



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