Text Aligner is a tool to check/edit matching of the two corpus text files and add them to a database.



To use Aligner, go to Menu -> Tool -> Text Aligner.

Two corpus files

1. Open a file to the left and right text box by clicking a corresponding Open button.  You can specify the text encoding of the file you open.
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. If you have MeCab and MeCab-Ruby installed on your system, you can convert your plain Japanese text to wakachi-gaki format by checking MeCab box.  See the instruction on this page to install MeCab and MeCab-Ruby to your system.  NOTE: This feature is not supported in Snow Leopard due to some changes in Snow Leopard (it crashes the application).
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Once you open the matched files, click Match/Refresh List button.
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. You can check the match in the match table and if you find any mismatch, you can edit the text in the text box and click Match/Refresh button to make the changes reflected on the table..
   
   
   
   
   
   
5. If you want to save the change you made to a text file, you can save it by clicking Save button (this is only available for plain text files).
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. Once you are sure the two text files are aligned, click Add to Database button to add the two files to a current database.
   
   
   
   
   
   
7. You can clear the table/text boxes by clicking Clear.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Single aligned corpus file

1. Check Single checkbox.
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. Open an aligned text file in the left box.
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Click Match/Refresh List button.
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. Check the alignment, edit the text, and click Add to Database to add matched text to the current database.