daffychuy / jp-open-project

An open sourced Japanese dictionary app aim to provide to all platform. Currently at its very early stage

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Hi, I'm Daniel or Daffy! Software Developer from Canada

💼 I'm currently a Software Developer @ AMD
🎓 Recent Graduate from University of Toronto with a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science
💻 I love writing code and learn anything about it
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jp-open-project's Issues

Implement stripOkurigana so that more words can be recognized by the search engine

Remove database credentials from the repo

Although the db can only be access through certain ip address with the given database credential, the better practice is to not include the password in the file but rather have an environment file that won't be uploaded to git to store the credential and parse from it.

Allow searching English meaning instead of Japanese word

create search query for kanji search

Implement Conjugable words into searched terms and all the data in the database

Implement conjugative verbs in JS.
That way it can also be used when using search query and output results.

Main Goal:
Since all dictionary words are informal verbs, we need to convert them all to informal verbs.
Or at least have a list of formal & informal verbs with every single tense

Reference:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_grammar#Conjugable_words
• http://cheatsheets.nihonshock.com/sheets/
• http://nihonshock.com/2010/02/japanese-cheat-sheet-2/

Create search query for MongoDB for basic hiragana search

Improve documentation & create wiki for APIs

Implement Special case of search

Currently, we have two kind of search, hiragana and kanji and if its a mixed, they won't match.

So we need to create function to convert things like "許します" to "許す"
or we add Conjugated database.

Combine all the python files together and add terminal arguments

Currently, the file location are hardcoded, and having to supply the file in terminal would be a better implementation.

Combining all the python files will allow us to easily let others manipulate the data in a single file instead of several files. As well as add an option to have argument where we can supply file location and which parser we want to run.