I forgot to mention the other great treasure trove of Chinese
dictionaries,grammar,etc is Google Books. Find the books with Full or
Preview and use the search function for the books. Unfortunately only
English works not the Chinese.

Jim

On Feb 26, 6:27 am, Space Cowboy > wrote:
> Cedict(MDBG.NET) will parse the correct polysyllabic combinations if
> they exist in its dictionary. Nciku does so equally. If its not in
> one it is in the other. You pick a character in a Chinese string you
> dont know if it is mono or polysyllabic. Sites like these know how to
> parse. If the Chinese can do it a computer can.
>
> Jim
>
> PS There are lists of STOP words in Chinese that help with sentence
> parsing. I will say Google translate is better at this than word
> parsing.
>
> On Feb 25, 3:55 pm, Lewis Perin > wrote:
>
> > Space Cowboy > writes:
> > >Google translate would be better if it recognized more polysyllabic
> > >Chinese characters for words you find in dictionaries like Cedict.
>
> > Yeah, but Chinese text doesn’t have spaces between words. And a given
> > character in a sentence might be the last character in one word or the
> > first in another or a middle character in yet another. Teaching a
> > computer program to figure out this stuff reliably would not be easy.
>
> > /Lew
> > ---
> > Lew Perin /