This is the blog of Gold Ibex Software, which for the moment is just an alias of Harry Schmidt, a Ph.D candidate in classical philology at Princeton University. Read all of his questions, comments, concerns, gripes, and otherwise dumb statements about the future of philology as a discipline and why we will die out if we don’t embrace computer technology in all aspects of the discipline. This includes departments being willing to hire classicists who write software and support their research in computational theory and technique!
- I've just clocked Parsimonious at ~2,500 parses per second on a four year-old notebook computer (4,500 in multithreaded mode).
- Coming soon: Parsimonious, a new extremely fast rule-based parser for Greek and Latin.
- The iPad evidently has big problems typographically: http://bit.ly/9YtY92
#1 by Tom Banks on May 31, 2010 - 7:35 pm
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Lexidium and Lexiphanes are wonderful pieces of work. To have those lexical resources on an iPhone is a dream come true. Thank you.
#2 by
Harry Schmidt on June 5, 2010 - 2:38 pm
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Dear Tom,
Thanks so much for your kind words. With support from people like you I’ll continue to improve my apps and support my users!
#3 by Bret Mulligan on June 9, 2010 - 5:17 pm
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These apps are wonderful! Any plans to publish native versions for the iPad?
#4 by Nigel Webb on June 29, 2010 - 8:57 am
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Lexidium is a fantastic resource, and an amazing thing for anyone who has an interest in classics and an iPhone. Sadly, I have the former but not the latter.
Do you have any plans to port it to the Android platform?
#5 by Gary on July 15, 2010 - 2:18 am
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Hello,
Could you add a feature to the dictionaries where clicking a word in the definition will link to its definition?
#6 by
Harry Schmidt on July 21, 2010 - 1:19 am
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Dear Brett,
Yes, an iPad version is coming out in a couple of weeks.
#7 by
Harry Schmidt on July 21, 2010 - 1:22 am
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Dear Nigel,
Yes, an Android version is possibly in the cards.
#8 by
Harry Schmidt on July 21, 2010 - 1:32 am
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Dear Gary,
Yes, this will be a feature in Lexidium 3, which is coming soon.