Re: tlug: Kanji to Hiragana soft

[Jim Breen <jwb@example.com>]

>> Eric S. Standlee asked:
>> Is there a software package that will change kanji in to hiragana
>> (furigana) for linux.  I need to take a large amount of Japanese text and
>> filter kanji into hiragana for those who cannot read kanji well.

By now the main answers have been given. I think kakasi is probably the
best for you, as it in-lines the kana. I haven't tried sumono yet, but
juman/chasen is an excellent morphological analyzer, and fairly
adaptable. I haven't run it under Linux, but it's fine with Solaris.

If a glossing is what you want (and this includes the kana expansions),
you can try Hilofumi Yamamoto's "mailgloss" system (see:
http://www.intersc.tsukuba.ac.jp) or my own WWWJDIC. The former uses
juman with an EDICT match as a back-end. WWWJDIC uses EDICT searches
alone.

Cheers

Jim

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