YAD Dictionary　v2.0

 

    YAD -   Yet Another Dictionary Viewer with Examples sentences.

            by Rajasekaran Natarajan rajasekaran.natarajan@gmail.com

                Ver2.0

 

 

INSTALLATION

 

Just unzip the files to a directory for example <C:\Program Files\YAD> and

click the file named YAD.EXE to start the program.

 

To remove the software, delete all the files and directory.

 

PRE-REQUISITES:

 

This software needs two files

1. EDICT Dictionary File

            The file needed can be downloaded from http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/edict.gz

            More details referhttp://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/j_edict.html

 

2. Japanese Example sentences File

            The file needed can be downloaded from http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/examples.gz

            More details refer http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdicinf.html#examp_tag

 

After downloading please unzip these [edict.gz, examples.gz] files using gunzip and place the unzipped files

[edict, examples] in the same directory as the exe file [yad.exe].

 

 

HELP

Start page

Usage:

Enter a word in the Text Box and Press Search to get examples sentences

for the particular word usage.

 

 

 

 

Example 1:

If the dictionary Checkbox is checked, then the meaning of words in the

            Japanese example sentence is extracted from EDICT and listed with the

            Example sentences

Searching 朝ご飯 with dictionary switch on

 

Example2:

If the dictionary Checkbox is not checked, then only examples are listed.

Searching 朝ご飯 with dictionary switch off

 

 

The search results can be saved to a Text file by File à Save, currently it saves the results only in "SJIS" encoding.

 

 

 

History:

Sometime back I was searching for an offline alternative for Prof. Jim Breen

WWWJDIC example sentences search for a particular word.

Surprisingly there was none and I saw a post requesting the same in usenet,

So I started writing one of my own by python, then I improved it little to share it with all.

 

Changes

 

ver2.0 Word listing from dictionary made optional.

            Highlighting of search word enabled.

            Menu bar added and new features esp Saving the search results.

            Lists all the results so some buttons were removed.

            The window esp the Text Area can be dynamically resized.

           

           

ver1.0 Crude version, just lists examples with Japanese words cross reference        from Edict.

            Lists only 3 examples at a time.

 

 

Limitations/Bugs etc:

           

            1. If you enter a english word for search, it assumes the entered word

               as a part of the word. Example searching for the word "act" also lists

               Examples with "catarACT /ACTivity/inACTive" etc etc. Just need to change the regex,

               I will fix it later meanwhile you can use space before or after the search word to circumvent this problem

           

            2. Some of the search words may not be highlighted in the examples.

               For example: If the word kiku [in Japanese] is searched,

   it will  List all the examples, which uses the verb kiku in all forms like

               kikimasu, kikimashita etc. But It will not highlight the words.

 

To-do List:

 

  1. Make the example search optional with only Dictionary search for a particular word.
  2. May be implement something similar to JMDICT dictionary search.
  3. Include Kanji details for the searchword in a separate window from Kanjidic.

 

I will be continuously working on this to make a good freely available Japanese dictionary program,

So, if you have any feedback I would like to hear it

Please send your mails to rajsekaran.natarajan@gmail.com