shenmeci

Shenmeci is a simple Chinese-English online dictionary.

It uses a dictionary-based Chinese word segmentation approach, matching maximal-length words from left to right.

Full-Text Search for English terms is also available.

Online Dictionary

An online instance can be found at http://shenmeci.rodolfocarvalho.net.

Development repository

The project source-code is hosted at https://github.com/rhcarvalho/shenmeci.

Running

You will need a recent version of Go.

Checkout the repository and then:

1. Download the CEDICT Chinese-English dictionary:

   $ ./download_dict.sh

2. Create a configuration file in the repository root called config.json:

   { "Http": { "Host": "127.0.0.1", "Port": 8080 }, "CedictPath": "dict/cedict_1_0_ts_utf-8_mdbg.txt.gz" }

3. Start the HTTP server:

   $ go run -tags sqlite_fts5 .

Deployment

bin/deploy-fly