udkundoku 0.3.5

Classical Chinese to Modern Japanese Translator

UD-Kundoku

Classical Chinese to Modern Japanese Translator, working on Universal Dependencies.

Basic usage

>>> import udkundoku
>>> lzh=udkundoku.load()
>>> s=lzh("欲治其國者先齊其家")
>>> t=udkundoku.translate(s)
>>> print(t)

udkundoku.load() is an alias for udkanbun.load() of UD-Kanbun. udkundoku.translate() is a transcriptive converter from Classical Chinese (under Universal Dependencies of UD-Kanbun) into Modern Japanese (under Universal Dependencies of UniDic2UD).

You can simply use udkundoku on the command line:

echo 欲治其國者先齊其家 | udkundoku -j

Installation for Linux

Binary wheel is available for Linux, and is installed by default when you use pip:

pip install udkundoku

旧仮名口語UniDic is automatically downloaded for UniDic2UD.

Installation for Cygwin64

For installing in Cygwin64, make sure to get gcc-g++ git python37-pip python37-devel swig packages, and then:

pip3.7 install git+https://github.com/KoichiYasuoka/mecab-cygwin64
pip3.7 install udkundoku

Use python3.7 command in Cygwin64 instead of python. For installing in old Cygwin (32-bit), try to use mecab-cygwin32 instead of mecab-cygwin64.

Installation for Jupyter Notebook (Google Colaboratory)

!pip install udkundoku

Author

Koichi Yasuoka (安岡孝一)