Vocab Coverage – New Grammar widget

Could reading be made available in cases like 歪 | Bunpro where the sentences are already available? That might cover a few cases!

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I can’t find it on mobile

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Our app developer is working on it!
少々お待ちください 🙇‍♂️

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Hi !
I like the feature very much.
That said I’m wondering if this means you have given up on per-word clickability directly in the example sentences ?
That, I would regret.

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We haven’t given up, it just takes very long to write an accurate parser, and even after parsing it will require human checks to make sure the content is correct.

Sorry for the delay with this, but it’s definitely still on the way!

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Glad to hear it’s a work in progress ! It will be incredibly valuable once released.
May I ask which method you choose to build the parser, technically speaking. I’m just being a little curious. :slight_smile:

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I’m not sure exactly how Jake is doing it, but I think it uses Japanese tokenizers and a lot of custom logic.
No AI at the moment.

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Can you not use an existing project instead of doing everything from scratch? I have seen several websites such as jisho that have the functionality to parse a Japanese sentence into its parts. Jisho uses mecab for parsing, and I suspect most other websites either make an api call to jisho or also use mecab directly. Both yomitan and mecab have parsers that are open source, and an api/wrappers that you could use. You could probably also just crowdsource the problem with a system where users can mark errors in the automatic parsing and if enough people mark the same change you could update it automatically.

Regardless of how it is done in the end, I am also looking forward to this feature.

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I’ve been loving this feature! One thing that I think would be nice is if it could show up on the info page during reviews?

I am hoping to retroactively start adding vocab for grammar points as I get them wrong in reviews and I keep going to the info page during reviews to look for the vocab widget to no avail. The workaround is opening the grammar point in a new tab, but ultimately I think it would be useful to have on the info page if it’s not too difficult to implement :slight_smile:

Thanks for all your hard work!

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To add onto this (Completely agree with needing the Vocab Coverage added to the review screens!)

Would be great to have a signifier on the Grammar Library screen per grammar point to say if Vocab has been completed or not

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Unfortunately those parsers aren’t great out of the box, and are often too granular to be used with our Grammar.
Some of our Grammar often includes multiple sub-“grammar” (e.g. even something similar like 〜ようと思う includes volitional よう, particle と, Vocab 思う) – so a parser has to be heavily catered to our use-case.

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I guess I can add this back in!

I remove it as there is the possibility that a user can mess with the Vocab Progress of items in the current Review session

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A random comment on Bunpro features.

I remember when Bunpro was super brand new. I don’t remember how many years ago that was. I hadn’t used it from then until a few months ago.

It has come such a long way. It is really helping me to identify and fill in weak spots in my grammar knowledge, particularly.

I don’t mean to down-talk WK, of which I have always been such a big supporter, but so many of the features here are so helpful, and so far above what WK has. Like turning furigana on and off for certain words, or manually resetting SRS levels. Or this new little widget.

Thank you for your work! :heart:

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Thanks for the kind words!!
I’ve passed it on to the team 🫶

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It’s a really good feature, i didn’t know I needed it, but my crave for lists to check is so satisfied ! Thank you Bunpro team <3

I was wondering since I’m adding currently many new self studied sentences : is the vocabulary in those sentences taken account in this new widget ? If not, will it be in the future (is it only possible technically speaking ?)

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Hi there!
I’m not 100% sure what you mean!
Do you mean, you’re adding Self-Study Sentences to Vocab, but not adding them to your Reviews queue?

The new vocab widget is for the vocabulary in the examples sentences of the grammar point. But as I add new sentences in the grammar point for self-study, is the new sentences’ vocabulary in the widget too ?(i’m sorry, english is not my mothertongue)

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Good question.

No it won’t be!
The data is manually set by us (it’s static).