<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr">Hello everyone, My name is Ian Worthington and I have a dream that I think you can help me with.<br><br>You see, I'm a student of the Japanese language, and I'm not a very good one.<br><br>My biggest issue is that I always have my doubts if the things I read are actually something people say, or if it's just things that are usually written.<br>So because of this, I end up saying strange things because I've never heard them before, but I may have read them.<br><br>So, my solution, was to gather lots and lots of subtitles, match them up on paired languages, and then have a nice search interface for it so people can very easily find how to actually say things, in a very native way, in the other language.<br><br>I finished it many many years ago, when my coding skills were quite weak (using CherryPy, Postgresql and Sphinx - with the OpenSubs corpus), and this was when I didn't even know how to use Git. It took a long time, writing the various subtitle parsers, tokenizers etc.<br>Here's a pit of it in action back then<br><div><img src="cid:ii_jx2zvj970" alt="image.png" width="562" height="319"><br></div><div>(I used it in a presentation to get a job here in Japan)<br><br></div>I recently rediscovered my project, and did some searching online - only to find that you guys have already made exactly what I wanted long ago:<br><a href="http://opus.nlpl.eu/cwb/OpenSubtitles/frames-cqp.html" target="_blank">http://opus.nlpl.eu/cwb/OpenSubtitles/frames-cqp.html</a> <div><br></div><div>What I would like to do, is<br>1) Build a better UI front end (I'll do)<br>2) Host it on a separate URL (like, <a href="http://subsearch.com" target="_blank">subsearch.com</a> or something)<br><br>For this to work, I would love it if I could get permission to use the API endpoint for these queries - preferable using json.<br><br>I don't aim to make any profit from this at all, and I'm happy to attach all credit/references back to your site however you like.<br><br>What do you think?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Ian<br><br></div></div>
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