English-Japanese Sentence Generator
英日文章自動生成プログラム
www.manythings.org/sentences/random

Note February 2018: This does not work correctly anymore. - Sorry

• When I moved this to a new server, it quit working, and I don't currently have the time to fix it.
• I'll leave the pages online, since hopefully I can eventually find some time to localize the code to the new server.

Experimental

• This is where I experiment with bilingual sentence generation.
• The Japanese is not a translation of the English, but is generated at the same time.
• The aim is to create natural-sounding English-Japanese sentences pairs, not to create funny-sounding, laugh-provoking sentences like many random sentence generators do.

警告、注意、危険 - Warning, Be Careful, Watch Out, Danger

• Due to the nature of random sentence generators, there may be some unnatural-sounding sentences and some mistakes.
  文生成プログラムの性質のため、不自然さや、間違いがある場合もあります。
• These are computer-made sentences (コンピューターの作った文章), so they may not always be good sentences. However, if one language makes sense, usually the other makes sense, too.

Default Set of Data

Try these first.

• Japanese-English
• English-Japanese
• Japanese Reading Practice using Computer Generated Sentences
  • I've always wanted to see if I could create something like this -- software that creates, so students would never run out of content.
  • Perhaps, it's not quite there yet, but it's getting closer.

Testing Various Data Sets

• 110603:
  Jpn-Eng - Eng-Jpn
• 110603a:
  Jpn-Eng - Eng-Jpn - Japanese Reading Practice (Ale)
• 110603au: Focus on Countries
  Jpn-Eng - Eng-Jpn - Japanese Reading Practice (Aus)
• 110603c: Focus on Men's Names
  Jpn-Eng - Eng-Jpn - Japanese Reading Practice (Cha)
• 110603ca: Focus on Nationalities
  Jpn-Eng - Eng-Jpn - Japanese Reading Practice (Can)
• 110603e: Focus on Women's Names
  Jpn-Eng - Eng-Jpn - Japanese Reading Practice (Eli)
• 110603ce: Focus on Men and Women's Names
  Jpn-Eng - Eng-Jpn - Japanese Reading Practice (CE)
• 110603f: Focus on Languages
  Jpn-Eng - Eng-Jpn - Japanese Reading Practice (Fre)
• 110603j:
  Jpn-Eng - Eng-Jpn - Japanese Reading Practice (Jos)
• 110603l:
  Jpn-Eng - Eng-Jpn - Japanese Reading Practice (Law)
• 110603t:
  Jpn-Eng - Eng-Jpn - Japanese Reading Practice (Tim)

Try Other Data Sets (2010 and Earlier Experiments)

• ej-v1.cgi/0-0
• ej-v1.cgi/0-1
• ej-v1.cgi/0-2
• ej-v1.cgi/1-0
• ej-v1.cgi/1-1
• ej-v1.cgi/1-2
• ej-v1.cgi/2-0
• ej-v1.cgi/2-1
• ej-v1.cgi/2-2
• Basically Proofed
  • ej-v1.cgi/1-99
  • ej-v1.cgi/2-99
  • ej-v1.cgi/3-99
• Frankie (unproofed)
  • ej-v1.cgi/1-301
  • ej-v1.cgi/2-301
  • ej-v1.cgi/3-301
• Brian (unproofed)
  • ej-v1.cgi/1-302
  • ej-v1.cgi/2-302
  • ej-v1.cgi/3-302
• Data from NEC 9801 Program I Wrote (unproofed)
  • ej-v1.cgi/1-303
  • ej-v1.cgi/2-303
  • ej-v1.cgi/3-303
• Too Much Data? (unproofed)
  • ej-v1.cgi/99-99
  • ej-v1.cgi/99-99
  • ej-v1.cgi/99-99

Notes

• 0 verbs are intransitive.
• 3 verbs have " a "
• 4 verbs have direct object (Prof. Itoh)
• 5 camera