Word Search: Improve inflection recognition (or add additional inflections)

[Shenkenstein]

Currently, the inflection works pretty well in a lot of situations, but it still misses words entirely in other situations, leading to much confusion if one does not know the underlying verb. For example: えがかれた should show results for 描く with a passive past inflection. つがせる should show results for 継ぐ with a causative inflection. and so forth. I am not an expert on inflections by any means, but my browser extension Rikaisama does a pretty good job picking up on them. Aedict currently shows less than useful information in the case when it misses an inflection.

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[mvysny]

Thank you for letting me know. It would be interesting to know which engine Rikaisama uses to deinflect. I have a small in-house deinflection engine which is currently at its limits. I have an idea on how to rewrite that engine, but I have so little time... Yet I need to do that.

[Shenkenstein]

I don't know if this is helpful, but I think it's open source, so if you wanted to peek around and see if you could figure it out, or contact the developer, here's the website for it. https://sourceforge.net/projects/rikaisama/ And this is its original thread: http://forum.koohii.com/thread-5351.html I haven't used the original version, Rikaichan, in a long time, but I would assume it has the same deinflection engine too, so maybe that would be of more use. https://rikaichan.en.softonic.com/ http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/