Since I do not have enough time to continue its development, I stopped paying for the Apple iOS Developer Program, and the app is now off the shelf. If you are interested in its development, please drop me an e-mail.
W-CEDict is a simple Chinese–English dictionary
for the iPhone based on CC-CEDICT.
There are many such software applications, even on iPhones alone. So why
am I making this program? It serves a specific purpose:
Process phrases and sentences with no spaces in between and smartly divide words and translate them. See the screenshot (click on it to see the full size) for what I mean.
You can download this application here.
It was just a personal interest to test the dictionary-based word division algorithm in the beginning, and I think it may benefit more people to make it available on the iTunes App Store. The main audience is Chinese-learners, who might feel difficulties when facing a Chinese sentence, which, unlike English and many Western languages, does not explicitly mark word boundaries.
Apart from having this special feature, it supports both Traditional and Simplified Chinese, and will display the other variant if it is different from the given one. The new version (1.3) has the following enhancements:
Your comments are welcome, especially if they are concrete suggestions how to make this application better :-). See my home page for my contact e-mail.
2011-09-06, last updated by Wu Yongwei