vocabsieve 0.8.3

A simple, effective sentence mining tool.

VocabSieve - a simple sentence mining tool

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VocabSieve (formerly Simple Sentence Mining, ssmtool) is a program for sentence mining, in which sentences with target vocabulary words are collected and added into a spaced repetition system (SRS, e.g. Anki) for language learning. It is meant to help intermediate learners gain vocabulary efficiently by allowing card creation without interrupting the flow of content immersion.

Features

• Quick word lookups: Getting definition, pronunciation, and frequency within one or two keypresses/clicks.
• Wide language support: Supports all languages listed on Google Translate, though it is currently optimized for European languages.
• Lemmatization: Automatically remove inflections to enhance dictionary experience (books -> book, ran -> run)
• Local-first: No internet is required if you use downloaded resources. VocabSieve has no central server, so there are no fees to keep it running.
• Sane defaults: Little configuration is needed other than settings for Anki. It comes with two dictionary sources by default for most languages and one pronunciation source that should cover most needs.
• Local resource support: Dictionaries in StarDict, Migaku, plain JSON, MDX, Lingvo (.dsl), CSV; frequency lists; and audio libraries.
• Web reader: Read epub, fb2 books, or plain articles with one-click word lookups and Anki export.
• eReader integration: Batch-import KOReader and Kindle highlights to Anki sentence cards.

Tutorials

Wiki page (The text originally on this document or the blog post has since been moved there, with some updates.)

New video tutorial

Windows and Mac users: If you want to install this program, go to Releases and from the latest release, download the appropriate file for your operating system.

Linux distro packages

Click to show distro-specific installation instructions

Gentoo

First, you need to add the ::guru overlay. Skip this section if you have already done so.

# eselect repository enable guru
# emaint -r guru sync

Install the package: # emerge -av app-misc/vocabsieve

Arch

Use your favorite AUR helper (or manually) to install the pacakge vocabsieve.

Other distros

At this time, there are no packages for other distributions. If you are able to create packages for them, please tell me!

In the meantime, users should simply use pip3 to install VocabSieve: pip3 install --user vocabsieve.

This should install an executable and a desktop icon and behave like any other GUI application you may have.

Development

To run from source, simply use pip3 -r requirements.txt and then python3 vocabsieve.py.

Alternatively, you can also install a live version to your python package library with pip3 install . (Add --user if there is a permission error)

For debugging purposes, set the environmental variable VOCABSIEVE_DEBUG to any value. This will create a separate profile (settings and databases for records and dictionaries) so you may perform tests without affecting your normal profile. For each different value of VOCABSIEVE_DEBUG, a separate profile is generated. This can be any number or string.

Note that VocabSieve is unable to delete old profiles. You must do so yourself based on your operating system's locations.

Pull requests are welcome! If you want to implement a significant feature, be sure to first ask by creating an issue so that no effort is wasting on doing the same work twice.

API documentation

If you want to leverage VocabSieve to build your own plugins/apps, you can refer to the API Documentation.

Note that VocabSieve is still alpha software. API is not guaranteed to be stable at this point.

Feedback

You are welcome to report bugs, suggest features/enhancements, or ask for clarifications by opening a GitHub issue.

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Credits

The definitions provided by the program by default come from English Wiktionary, without which this program would never have been created.

App icon is made from icons by Freepik available on Flaticon.