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shameless plug And for those who can speak Chinese, i.e. know the grammar but are limited to pinyin and can't type in Chinese characters there's this handy too
by ensiferum 10y ago
shameless plug
And for those who can speak Chinese, i.e. know the grammar but are limited to pinyin and can't type in Chinese characters there's this handy tool that combines pinyin input with a dictionary (and frequency table) and makes it easy to write in Chinese. Basically just type the word in pinyin and then choose the right chinese character from the suggested word list. The English definition of the word helps to choose the correct Chinese character. There is support for traditional and simplified.
https://github.com/ensisoft/pinyin-translator https://github.com/ensisoft/pinyin-translator
- potatosoup 10y agoIn fact popular IMEs like Sogou do this and also get updated to recognize names of famous people, movies, etc. You can even type abbreviations for common phrases, like "cflm" and it'll figure out you meant chi-fan-le-ma 吃飯了嗎
- ensiferum 10y agoOh, that's interesting. Back in the day when I wrote that tool all the IME tools I found and tried that were able to understand pinyin expected you know the correct character but lacked support for any kind of verbal cue (definition, dictionary) about which is the correct character with the intended meaning.
- inimino 10y agoCurrent input methods are based on large corpora and use context to disambiguate. They are surprisingly smart.