Yomichan is able to scan the sentence surrounding a term and parse individual words - of the query text on the search page. - This information can be added to Anki cards to provide additional context. + of the query on the search page. + This information can also be added to Anki cards to provide additional context.
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+ Yomichan's internal parser is a simple algorithm which can parse sentences using the installed dictionaries. + It works by repeatedly detecting the longest term at the start of the sentence and advancing until no text remains. + This provides decent results for the general case, but since grammatical structure is not taken into account, + it can sometimes yield incorrect segmentation. +
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MeCab is a third-party program which uses its own dictionaries and parsing algorithm to decompose sentences into individual words. + MeCab may provide more accurate parsing results than Yomichan's internal parser. +
+In order for Yomichan to use it, both MeCab and a native messaging component must be installed. A setup guide can be found here.