Sentence segmentation tool.

[ChouDoufu]

nciku just introduced "Sentence Mode". Just paste a sentence into the search bar and press search. It will segment the sentence into words and give pop-up definitions when you move your mouse over a word in the sentence.

I've seen lots of Chinese segmenters, and this is the best one I've encountered, bar none.

Try it out!

http://blog.nciku.com/blog/en/?p=1059

I can't claim responsibility for this feature, but please let me know what you think about it.

[imron]

Doesn't appear to be working for me. I get no sentence segmentation (Firefox under Mac OS X, from outside of China).

[hanyu_xuesheng]

Just inputted...

人们传说，从前有个名叫贵良的小伙子，他的脚有毛病，走路很困难。他想找一个漂亮的妻子，就要他的朋友华汉替他介绍一个姑娘。正巧，有个名叫叶青的姑娘，鼻子有些毛病，也要华汉给她找个满意的丈夫。华汉想：让她和贵良结婚，不是很好吗？有一天，华汉让贵良骑着马从叶青的家门前走过，又叫叶青手里拿一朵花，装作闻花的样子。叶青看到贵良骑在马上，样子很威武，心里非常喜欢。贵良也爱上了这个很好看的闻花姑娘。结婚那天，夫妻见了面，说起“走马观花”的情景，彼此才恍然大悟。“走马观花”有时也说“走马看花”。

现在常用个成语比喻匆匆忙忙地看了一遍，没有仔细观察。

didn't work for me... (sentence too long?)

Firefox, Mac.

[imron]

My sentence was just the default option metioned on the blog: 我们有了个新功能

[waiguoren]

I've been using the MDBG Reader software for this purpose. The dictionary is huge and all the user has to do is slide his cursor over the text. Except for a few nagging issues, it was definitely worth the purchase.

[ironfrost]

For people who don't see segmentation at all, which version of the website are you using? Only nciku.com (the English version) has the segmentation mode, not nciku.cn (the Chinese version).

[imron]

I clicked on the link above that says "try it out". I also clicked on the link on nciku's blog that says "click to perform a real sentence mode search". Both links which are provided as nciku.com automatically redirect me to nciku.cn without me doing anything.

[roddy]

Is it maybe redirecting you based on browser / OS language?

[imron]

Almost certainly. My language settings for the OS are all Chinese.

[HashiriKata]

It seems to work for me (my OS is English XP).

With regarding the segmentation, I didn't expect magic and so I'm neither thrilled nor disappointed. Nciku to me is as good as it's already been, but I think the new addition will be handy when you don't know where one word ends and another begins, and the segmentation mode will to some extent help stopping fruitless searches.