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And now I am writing from the brand new Windows Vista Ultimate. I have to say that I truly like this OS and because I bought the OEM Version, it only cost me 189€. I will be playing around with it for the next couple of days before going back to the development of Tenka Text. Oh by the way... one thing I am truly delighted about is that it does not show any user access control warnings if you try to run Tenka Text*. Managed applications are priviliged on Vista.

I'm in the process of switching the development from XP/2003 to Windows Vista Ultimate. To be continued...

I spent the night implementing the option I mentioned in the previous post and decided to release a new binary after 22 days. (Corresponding SVN revision: 96) Tenka Text WordLister is now more precise than WordSmith Tools WordList. It has an option now through which a user can choose to display in the statistics view for frequency lists either the count of tokens that are a certain number of characters long or the count of types that are a certain number of characters long. *NEW* WordSmith Tools 4 can only display the first but not the latter. Check all three screenshots! Tenka Text WordLister with Length Statistics for Tokens Tenka Text WordLister with Length Statistics for Types WordSmith Tools 4 with Length Statistics for Words(Tokens)

^_^ Here is the new statistics view for frequency lists from the 2007-02-05 pre-alpha release. I'm still actively working on frequency lists at GUI and lower levels and some of the following features might be ready for the next release: An option to have the program display in the statistics view for frequency lists either the count of tokens that are a certain number of characters long or the count of types that are a certain number of characters long. * Tenka Text 2007-02-05 and WordSmith Tools 4 can only display the first but not the latter. There is only a little GUI work to deliver this option. Live updates. Once in place, users will be able to add or remove files from their frequency lists without the need to recalculate everything from the start. Well, that's all the news about Tenka Text 2007-02-05. Let's move on to more personal stuff. Logographic Failure I found out that the "Tenka" Logo 「天花」, which was my personal attempt at creating a digital seal with...

A new pre-alpha binary release is now available for download ! It features the performance of the new frequency list classes and a new statistics view in its WordLister tool. Go download the demo version of the commercially available WordSmith Tools 4 and compare to realize the power of open-source C#!

TT5 -> TT8 performance difference I conducted a performance test on one of the remotely accesible computers of the University of Heidelberg. (2 physical/4 logical cpus and 2 GB Ram) The test was performed by creating a frequency list based on the helsinki corpus (9.793 KB, single text file) and then sorting it. As you can see below, my optimization efforts seem to have paid off well. WordSmith Tools 4.0.0.374 took about 13 seconds to create and sort a word list into: Alphabetical order Frequency order Alphabetical order between types with the same frequency value TT5 (svn revision 17, binary release: 2006-11-25) required 2,51 seconds to create and 10,07 seconds to sort the list into: Alphabetical order Frequency order TT8 (svn revision 66) needed 1,10~ seconds to create and 2,40~ seconds to sort the list into: Alphabetical order Frequency order Alphabetical order between types with the same frequency value * Performance Comparison Table WS4 0.0.374 TT5 SVN17 TT8 SVN62 TT8.1 S...

While investing some time in improving my new frequency list implementation, I also started to watch some new Japanese Dramas from Winter 2007 : Erai Tokoro ni Totsuide Shimatta! Hana Yori Dango 2 Enka* no Joou I just fell in love with the songs in Enka no Joou and decided to cut and retime subs of one the enkas in it. Here you can download this wonderful song. Two great open-source programs helped me do the work in under 2 minutes: VirtualDub and Aegisub . Both are extremely easy to use!