Program for creating graded readers?

[yedafu]

Hi everybody,

i'm working on a project of creating Chinese Graded reader. and i was wondering if anybody know of a program that allow you to do the following action:

1.     Select a word from a text (lets say 相见)

2.     Replace this word with a synonym (lets say 见面)

3.     Then make the program change all the (相见) In the text to(见面)

Your help will be much appreciated

[roddy]

The find and replace is trivial. Suggesting a synonym, and checking it works in all cases is where I suspect you need a human.

[Lu]

42 minutes ago, yedafu said:

i was wondering if anybody know of a program that allow you to do the following action

Can't any word processor do that?

[yedafu]

about the part of checking if it would work, this will be held by humans as there no way around it. But how can I do the replacing process? Can it be done by WORD processor as Lu mentioned in his comment? And if so how? Or maybe there are other software's?

Thanks so much

[roddy]

Unless I'm missing some requirement, this is very trivial. Microsoft Word can do it

https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Find-and-replace-text-and-other-data-in-a-Word-document-c6728c16-469e-43cd-afe4-7708c6c779b7

 

Open Office can do it

https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/SearchReplace

 

Google Docs can do it

https://support.google.com/docs/answer/62754?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en

 

However, it's not a very smart process. It can't tell the difference between, for a very hasty example, 我想见面 and 我还没看见面包店。

[yedafu]

Well actually Imron tool Chinese Text Analyzer can handle the problem you mentioned.

Thanks so much for the detailed reply:)

 

[roddy]

It'll do a better job, but I suspect @imron will be the first to say it needs careful watching. 

[imron]

The problem with doing find/replace in Word is as roddy mentioned that it doesn't respect word boundaries and you might end up changing the wrong things.

 

This is where Chinese Text Analyser comes in useful.  You can get it export a document and add spaces after every word. (File->Export->Document and set Word: Post to a single space).

 

Then take the exported file and fix up any segmentation errors by adding/removing spaces as necessary.

 

Then you can find/replace in something like word without any problem (though be careful of long words made up of several smaller words).

 

It's probably easier to do the first major draft of the text like this (e.g. with spaces), then at the end, just search and replace spaces with nothing.