- JDasher - Japanese Dasher - DAISHOYA
- JDasher - Japanese Dasher - DAISHOYA
The Japanese name for Dasher is
Daishoya (
),
which means `scribe'.
Dasher can be used to write Japanese in several different ways.
We replace the English alphabet
a..z by the Hiragana alphabet, 
(a,i,u,e,o, ka,ki,ku,ke,ko,...); and
we replace the English training text by a Hiragana document. [Unfortunately,
we have not been able to find a large pure-Hiragana document, so
our language model is not as well-trained as we would like.]
Two orderings of the Hiragana alphabet are available.
In "Hiragana 60" the diacritical marks (",o) are
included as separate characters; in "Hiragana 83" they are integrated
by including the characters 
, etc. in the alphabet ("pa", "ba").
Here are scripts written by Kaburagi for converting Japanese to `Furigana' (mixed hiragana/kanji, with each kanji accompanied by its kana pronunciation).
The full Japanese version, written by T. Kaburagi, works like this: the user writes each phrase in Hiragana; then if she wants to convert the word to Kanji, she enters a special control character ">" (within Dasher) and Dasher offers the alternative Kanji sequences for the given Hiragana sequence, with the space devoted to each Kanji determined by a language model; the user selects the desired Kanji sequence within Dasher, then writes the next kana sequence.
Here are screenshots of full Japanese Dasher
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| A movie describing Hiragana Daishoya in Japanese. |
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