A Japanese sentence bank. This program can consume sentences from a source, recognize the words in that sentence, and then setup an index so that sentences containing a given word can be found. The main use case for this program is to build up a searchable bank of sentences for learning. When learning it can be very useful to find example sentences for a given word, which this program enables. This program also does some basic morphological analysis on a sentence, to be able to store the root word for a verb conjugation. For example, searching for a verb will also yield sentences containing a conjugated form of that verb.
This program depends on mecab for the aforementioned morphological splitting. For instructions on installing it, see the mecab crate.
USAGE:
ginkou <SUBCOMMAND>
FLAGS:
-h, --help Prints help information
-V, --version Prints version information
SUBCOMMANDS:
add Add new sentences to the database.
get Search for all sentences containing a given word.
help Prints this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
USAGE:
ginkou add [OPTIONS]
FLAGS:
-h, --help Prints help information
-V, --version Prints version information
OPTIONS:
-d, --database <db> The database to use.
-f, --file <file> The file to read sentences from
This will read words from the command line if no file is passed:
$ ginkou add
なぜって？
私がきた。
EOF
The program can also be used to parse a file containing japanese sentences:
ginkou add -f file
USAGE:
ginkou get [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <word>
FLAGS:
-a, --allwords Show all results instead of shortest 200
-h, --help Prints help information
-V, --version Prints version information
OPTIONS:
-d, --database <db> The database to use.
ARGS:
<word> The word to search for in the database.
For example, looking up 私 will yield something along the lines of:
$ ginkou get 私
私が来た。
The output of this will just be matching sentences in an undefined order, seperated by newlines. This can be piped into programs as you wish, for example to sort the output by line length.