MorphMan now has branch supporting Chinese

[NinKenDo]

For those who don't know, MorphMan is a tool we've been using in the Japanese learning community for a while. It will analyse your Anki cards and order them on the basis of known and unknown morphemes, attempting to produce as much of an i+1/k+1 experience as possible. This is especially useful when working through subs2srs decks or other decks generated from corpora. You guys can do some Googling or read the MorphMan wiki to get a better idea of what this means and some of the other awesome features MorphMan brings to the table. But it boils down to this, MorphMan changes the order of new cards so that they only have one new word in them, so that you don't suddenly get hit with a sentence where absolutely nothing is familiar. Such an approach is backed up by well supported linguistic theories which emphasise the importance of scaffolding learner knowledge (Appeal to authority: I'm doing my MA in Applied Linguistics).

 

Anyway, I recently started learning Chinese, and with a couple hiccups, and with some help from MorphMan's latest creator, I managed to get MorphMan working with Jieba alongside the normal Japanese, Space Delimited, and CJK Morphemisers. So you can now use this powerful tool with your Chinese Anki decks, to supercharge your study of corpora, or to just make sentences gathered from materials more approachable, or even better, both.

 

So check it out over at https://github.com/NinKenDo64/Jieba-Morph

[NinKenDo]

Hey guys, just wanted to update on the status of the project. I was hoping these University holidays to work on clean up a few bugs and port JiebaMorph to work with Anki2.1, but I'm happy to let you guys know that the default MorphMan for 2.1 now comes with Chinese support inbuilt.

 

I'll update the GitHub soon as I'm unlikely to update the tool. Please go to the main Anki 2.1 morphman port and you should have no problem using it's Chinese parser.

 

Cheers guys! I hope you got some use out of the tool!

[Patrui]

Thank you very much for the tool! I have been using it for quite a bit now with sentences I get from reading novels and it's been a great help.

[roddy]

So.... it could scan your standard vocab piles (the HSK lists, say, for Chinese), and then go through a deck of sentences (generated from subtitles, say) and then pick out the sentences where you will know all but one word? That's pretty nifty, if I've understood it correctly. 

[NinKenDo]

Yes. You've understood correctly. It automatically understands which words you know based on maturity of your cards which contain that vocabulary, but you're also able to import wordlists from external sources and mark them as known already, even if they're not in Anki.

 

You can also set priority for vocabulary in lists, so that if you have a sentence where the only unknown word, is in your priority list, and you have another sentence where the only unknown word is NOT in your priority list, it will show the one that contains the priority word first, which is helpful when studying to a specific curriculum, to make sure you're gaining exposure to vocab in a k+1 way as early as possible.

[philwhite]

With Morphman, I use my vocab deck to drive which new cards I add from my sentence deck (or sentence bank).

 

Each day, after learning and activating a few new words in my vocab deck, I run MorphMan Recalc. This updates the tags on my sentence deck. I select all the new sentence notes which have been tagged mm_fresh and reposition those to front of the queue. Then I set the number of new cards on my sentence deck (for the day) to match the number which have been tagged mm_fresh.

 

Tip: the first time you do this, you might get several hundred sentences, because the default setting for 'mature' cards in Morphman is 21 days, hence any vocab with interval < 21 is 'fresh'. So, it might hekp to edit config.py in morph folder and change mature threshold to 1 or 2 ... then restart Anki.

 

 

[roddy]

That's pretty cool!