YAD - Yet Another Dictionary Viewer with Examples sentences.
by Rajasekaran Natarajan rajasekaran.natarajan@gmail.com
Ver2.0
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].
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.
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:
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