Cantonese vocabulary visualization and example sentences

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/Cantonese

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  • HanziGraph

    A webapp to visualize relationships among Chinese characters and to see example sentences that illustrate their use. Also available for Japanese learners.

  • The code is free and open source, and you can find it on GitHub.

  • tatoeba2

    Tatoeba is a platform whose purpose is to create a collaborative and open dataset of sentences and their translations.

  • To build the tool, I analyzed sentences in the HKCanCor corpus and from Tatoeba to find the most common words. I then created a graph structure where each character is a node and the words are edges. The definitions came from CC-Canto and CEDICT.

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  • hkcancor

    Hong Kong Cantonese Corpus of transcribed speech (spontaneous speech, radio programmes and a monologue).

  • To build the tool, I analyzed sentences in the HKCanCor corpus and from Tatoeba to find the most common words. I then created a graph structure where each character is a node and the words are edges. The definitions came from CC-Canto and CEDICT.

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