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Penpower Chinese Expert

User Manual

Version: V2.3 Release: November, 2009 Edition: 2

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Contents

Chapter 1 Product Features .............................................................................. 1-1

1.1 Product Features ................................................................................................. 1 - 1

1.2 Version Introduction............................................................................................ 1- 2

1.2.1 Writing Pad Version .................................................................................. 1 - 2

1.2.2 Pen Scanner Version ................................................................................. 1-2

1.2.3 Standard Version....................................................................................... 1- 2

Chapter 2 Installation ........................................................................................ 2-1

2.1 System Requirements ......................................................................................... 2 - 1

2.2 Installation .......................................................................................................... 2 - 1

Chapter 3 Using the Chinese Expert ................................................................ 3- 1

3.1 Starting Penpower Chinese Expert .....................................................................3-1

3.2 Introduction to the Main Interface ...................................................................... 3- 1

3.2.1 Translation Mode ...................................................................................... 3- 1

3.2.2 Word Segmentation Mode ........................................................................ 3- 3

3.3 File Management ................................................................................................ 3 - 5

3.3.1 New Article .............................................................................................. 3- 5

3.3.2 Opening an Existing File .......................................................................... 3-6

3.3.3 Closing an article ...................................................................................... 3 - 6

3.3.4 Abstract ..................................................................................................... 3- 7

3.3.5 Save File ................................................................................................... 3- 8

3.3.6 Save as a New File ................................................................................... 3- 8

3.3.7 Close Chinese Expert ............................................................................... 3- 8

3.4 Sentence Segmentation ....................................................................................... 3- 9

3.4.1 Automatic Sentence Segmentation ........................................................... 3- 9

3.4.2 Basic Chinese Learning Functions in the Sentence Segmentation Pane 3-11

3.4.3 Build Phrase Manually ........................................................................... 3-15

3.4.4 Redo Phrase Segmentation ..................................................................... 3-16

3.4.5 Print ........................................................................................................ 3-16

3.5 Auto Insert all Phrases ...................................................................................... 3-17

3.6 Phrase Database Management ..........................................................................3- 19

3.6.1 Phrase Search ......................................................................................... 3-2 0

3.6.2 Speech Practice ...................................................................................... 3 -21

3.6.3 Character Tracing ................................................................................... 3-2 1

3.6.4 Listen to Pronunciation .......................................................................... 3-2 2

3.6.5 Recording ............................................................................................... 3-2 2

3.6.6 Add Phrase .............................................................................................. 3-23

3.6.7 Edit Phrase .............................................................................................. 3-24

3.6.8 Delete Phrase .......................................................................................... 3-24

3.6.9 Export ..................................................................................................... 3-24

3.7 Pronunciation Practice ...................................................................................... 3-26

3.7.1 TTS Speech ............................................................................................ 3-2 6

3.7.2 Recording ............................................................................................... 3-2 6

3.8 The Translation Function .................................................................................. 3-27

3.8.1 Phrase Translation Tip Display .............................................................. 3 -27

3.8.2 Lookup Phrase Translation in Dictionary ............................................... 3-27

3.8.3 Manual Translation ................................................................................. 3-28

3.8.4 Machine Translation of Whole Sentence or Article ............................... 3-29

3.9 User defined dictionary ..................................................................................... 3 -31

3.10 Re-edit Article ................................................................................................. 3-33

3.11 PCE Share ....................................................................................................... 3-34

3.12 About ............................................................................................................... 3-34

Chapter 4 Settings .............................................................................................. 4-1

4.1 PCE Settings ....................................................................................................... 4- 1

4.1.1 Language Setting ...................................................................................... 4-1

4.1.2 Font Size Setting ...................................................................................... 4 - 1

4.1.3 English-Chinese Dictionary Setting ......................................................... 4- 1

4.1.4 Converting Tradictional and Simplified Chinese Setting ......................... 4-2

4.1.5 Word Segmentation Setting ...................................................................... 4- 2

4.1.6 Speed of Speech Setting ........................................................................... 4- 2

4.1.7 Displaying Traditional and Simplified Chinese characters ...................... 4-2

4.2 Language Settings for English Environments .................................................... 4 - 3

4.2.1 Windows 2000 English Operating System ............................................... 4- 3

4.2.2 Windows XP English Operating System .................................................. 4- 4

Chapter 5 Writing Pad Version ........................................................................ 5- 1

5.1 Hardware Specifications ..................................................................................... 5- 1

5.2 Penpower Jr. Introduction ................................................................................... 5-2

5.3 Installing the PCE and Penpower Jr. ................................................................... 5-3

5.4 Starting the Penpower Chinese Expert ............................................................... 5 - 6

5.5 Touch Pad Operation ........................................................................................... 5 - 7

5.6 New Handwriting/Mouse Mode ......................................................................... 5 - 8

5.7 Full Screen Handwriting Mode ........................................................................... 5- 9

5.8 Balloon UI ......................................................................................................... 5- 11

5.9 Result Correction .............................................................................................. 5-12

5.10 Homophone ..................................................................................................... 5 -16

5.11 Related Phrase ................................................................................................. 5-17

5.12 Learning String ............................................................................................... 5-1 9

5.13 Gesture ............................................................................................................ 5-20

5.14 Mixing Traditional and Simplified Writing .................................................... 5-2 1

5.15 Switching Versions.......................................................................................... 5-21

5.16 Settings ............................................................................................................ 5-22

5.17 Signature ......................................................................................................... 5-25

5.18 Online Translator ............................................................................................ 5-27

5.19 Using Penpower Jr. in MSN Messenger ......................................................... 5-2 8

5.20 Input Tools ...................................................................................................... 5-2 9

5.21 Fast User Switching ........................................................................................ 5-31

Chapter 6 Pen Scanner Version ........................................................................ 6-1

6.1 Hardware Specifications ..................................................................................... 6- 1

6.2 WorldPenScan Introduction ................................................................................ 6-1

6.3 Installing the PCE and the WorldPenScan .......................................................... 6- 3

6.4 Starting the Penpower Chinese Expert ............................................................... 6 - 6

6.5 Start the Penpower WorldPenScan ..................................................................... 6 - 7

6.6 Recognition Language ...................................................................................... 6-10

6.7 Scan Direction ................................................................................................... 6- 11

6.8 Speech-While-Scanning .................................................................................... 6-14

6.9 Property Settings ............................................................................................... 6-14

6.10 Translation Website Setup ............................................................................ 6-15

6.11 Interface Language .......................................................................................... 6-15

6.11 Using the Balloon UI ...................................................................................... 6-16

6.12 Penpower Assistant Tools ............................................................................... 6 -21

Chapter 7 Penpower Voice Reader ................................................................. 7- 1

7.1 Run Penpower Voice Reader............................................................................... 7- 1

7.2 Voice Reader Settings ......................................................................................... 7 - 2

7.3 Exit Penpower Voice Reader............................................................................... 7- 2

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Chapter 1 Product Features

1.1 Product Features

Penpower Chinese Expert provides a comprehensive Chinese learning environment by immersing you in a Mandarin listening and speaking environment. Penpower Chinese Expert lets you learn Mandarin from any source including web sites, books, newspapers and magazines.

• Listening comprehension.

We employ the latest TTS (Text To Speech), and intelligent syntax technology, so you can listen to the correct pronunciation of single characters, phrases, or sentences. Penpower Chinese Expert can also record pronunciation from real people. You can hear real pronunciation at any time.

• Reading

Have trouble reading books, newspapers or magazines on hand? Input them into your PC, our software will show you everything about the Chinese characters such as the pinyin/ zhuyin, their radicals, their total number of strokes, and their meanings in English.

• Speaking

With our speech recognition technology, you can practice speaking Chinese phrases or taking quizzes with your PC and be condent that you sound more and more like a native Chinese speaker after each session.

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• Writing

We will show you how to write any Chinese character in the correct stroke order. We also provide you with several different inputting methods for your composing pleasure: hanyu pinyin, zhuyin or strokes.

• Translation

We use a state-of-the-art machine translation module for your exploration of Chinese and English. You can translate between Chinese and English by word, phrases or whole sentences.

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1.2 Version Introduction

1.2.1 Writing Pad Version

With the writing pad, you can write or modify any Chinese text easily and use Penpower Chinese Expert for listening comprehension, reading, speaking, writing, and translation.

For East Asian languages, handwriting is the most natural way to enter characters into a computer. If you do not know any keyboard-based input methods, such as hanyu pinyin, or zhuyin, then inputting by handwriting is denitely for you. Please refer to Chapter 5 Writing Pad Version.

1.2.2 Pen Scanner Version

By integrating WorldPenScan(pen scanner), you can fast scan any document into Penpower Chinese Expert and utilize all the listening, reading, speaking, writing, and translation features this software has to offer.

The included WorldPenScan can scan and recognize Traditional Chinese, Simplied Chinese and English into your computer via the USB interface. Effortlessly scan in with the transparent scan tip. Whatever you see, you can scan. Please refer to Chapter 6 Pen Scanner Version.

1.2.3 Standard Version

Penpower Chinese Expert Standard Version is a complete Chinese learning tool. You can utilize all the listening, reading, speaking, writing, and translation features and learn Chinese fast and easy. It also provides online and ofine activation. Let you learn Chinese anytime and anywhere.

Penpower Chinese Expert Standard Version is pure software. You can buy it in our online store or download the software and buy the “Product ID” to nish activation procedure.

Chapter 2 Installation

2.1 System Requirements

1. Intel Pentium CPU or above

2. 64MB RAM (128MB RAM recommended)

3. 150MB disk space

4. Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000

5. USB port

2.2 Installation

1. Insert Penpower Chinese Expert setup CD into the CD-ROM drive. The installation

program will start automatically. Please select an installation language and click [Next] to install.

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Note: Before installing the Penpower Chinese Expert on the Windows 2000/XP English

operating system, you must enable the Traditional or Simplied Chinese encoding support under Regional and Language Options on the Control Panel. The process for setting up Chinese language support is slightly different for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. See Section 4.2 Language Settings for English Environments for details.

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2. Click [Next] to install.

3. Read the license agreement, select [I accept the terms of the license agreement]. Click

[Next] to continue.

4. Select the destination location folder and click [Next].

5. Select a program folder and click [Next].

6. Click [Finish] to nish the installation.

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Note: If your software is an older version, please update to the latest version. You can

choose either [Remove now, and exit setup program.] or [Remove later, and exit setup program.] to continue using your current version.

Note : If you install the Penpower Chinese Expert Standard Version, please follow the

below instructions to activate your product;

If you install the Penpower Chinese Expert Writing Pad Version, please processed

to Chapter 5. Refer to 5.3 "Install Penpower Jr.";

If you install the Penpower Chinese Expert Pen Scanner Version, please processed

to chapter 6. Refer to chapter 6.3 "Install WorldPenScan".

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7. Fill in the Product ID, Name, Email and Phone no., and then click [Activate Software]

to activate the Penpower Chinese Expert. When the activation is successful, we will send you an email.

Note:

1. The Product ID is sticked on the installation CD.

2. If you have ever activated the PCE on your computer before, you can just click the [Get

Activation Code] to activate the software.

3. In case the activation fails, visit http://www.penpower.net/pce/active_pce.asp. Obtain a

different Activation Code, enter the code in the respected area, and then click [Activate Software] to activate manually.

Chapter 3 Using the Chinese Expert

3.1 Starting Penpower Chinese Expert

After the Chinese Expert software is installed, there will be a new shortcut on the desktop. Double click this icon to start the Penpower Chinese Expert.

3.2 Introduction to the Main Interface

3.2.1 Translation Mode

When the Chinese Expert is runs for the rst time, the articles I Speak Chinese and 100 Chinese words appear by default. Click the I Speak Chinese article to enter the default

Translation Mode .

Function Buttons

Chinese Article or Sentences

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Articles/ phrase List

Translation

Toolbar

Note: The English pane displays the machine-translated content and is provided for refer-

ence only. Click the individual sentence headings on the left to open them in the Chinese pane. You can also edit the translation in the English pane directly.

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Function Buttons

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New

Open

Save

tation

Save as

Word Segmen-

phrases

Translation Mode

Auto insert all

Phrase database

Dictionary

Settings

User Dened

Re-edit article

Help

Machine Translation

About

Toolbar

Export TTS or

Traditional Chinese to

Simplied Chinese

Simplied Chinese to

Human voice

Text to Speech

Traditional Chinese

1. Text to speech : Click the Text to speech button to hear theprogram speak the

text in the Chinese panel. The Text-to-speech function is a great way for you to practice your Chinese listening comprehension skills. The display subtitle feature is even more helpful by showing you what word is being pronounced during text-to-speech. so you can Click the Text to speech button again to stop.

recording to WMA le

Display/Hide Pinyin

2. Human Voice : Hear a pre-recorded human voice speak the default Chinese phrases.

Click the Human Voice to hear the voice and click it again to stop.

3. Traditional Chinese to Simplied Chinese and Simplied Chinese to Traditional

Chinese : Convert the Chinese characters to Traditional Chinese or Simplied.

4. Print : Print the segmented article or sentence in the Sentence Segmentation area.

5. Display/Hide Pinying : Display or hide the Pinyin in Sentence Segmentation pane.

6. Export TTS or recording to WMA le : Export the Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthetic

speech or the recorded human voice data to a WMA le for convenient listening.

3.2.2 Word Segmentation Mode

Click the Word Segmentation Mode button.

Chinese Article or Sentences

Articles/ phrase List

Tip-Show Translation and note

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Function Buttons

Sentence Segmentation

Toolbar

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Toolbar

Go back to

the article

Text to Speech

Note: When selecting a sentence from the left side, the Toolbar buttons will be differ-

ent from that of when selecting an article. Refer to 3.2.1 Translation Mode for the explanation of the article toolbar.

Record your

own voice

Human voice

Recording

Delete this

Display/Hide

Pinyin

Copy to clip-

board

Segmentation

Edit

Redo phrase

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1. Text to speech : Hear the Chinese speech in the Chinese pane.

2. Human Voice : Hear a pre-recorded human voice speak the default Chinese phrases.

Click the Human Voice button to hear the voice, click it again to stop.

3. Record your own voice : Turn on the Recorder.

4. Delete this recording : Delete the recorded le.

5. Display/Hide Pinying : Display or hide the Pinyin in the Sentence Segmentation

pane.

6. Copy to Clipboard : Converts all of the content in the Sentence Segmentation into

video les and saves the les onto the clipboard. You can paste the les into any editing software such as Word, Excel, Paint, etc.

7. Print : Print the segmented article or sentence in the Sentence Segmentation area.

8. Re-Edit : Edit any character in the sentence.

9. Re-Segment : For manually constructed words that are not able to merge with other

sentences, press the Re-Segment button to re-segment the word. Please reference to

3.4.4 Re-Segment.

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3.3 File Management

3.3.1 New Article

Click New to open the Location of the article dialog box. Enter the article

name and directory path, then Click OK to open a new article.

Note: By default the new article is called

untitled and has the My Document

folder as its directory path. Click button to select a new directory path.

Chinese content can be entered in the Chinese pane by typing in manually, or copying from another article.

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Note: When content is added, an asterisk (*) is appended to the article name. The asterisk

indicates that the article has been modied and has not yet been saved. Click the

Save button to save the article and the asterisk disappears.

Tip: If you open new article, the English eld is empty, if you need translation, please

reference 3.8.4 Machine Translation of Whole Sentence or Article.

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3.3.2 Opening an Existing File

Click the Open button to open an existing le or recent les.

If you select Open, the Open dialog box appears. Select one or more .pce les, then click Open to import its contents into Penpower Chinese Expert.

If you select Recent les the Recent les dialog box appears. All recently edited les are listed. Select multiple les and press OK to import all of the selected les into Penpower Chinese Expert.

3.3.3 Closing an article

In the article pane right-click the name of the article. Click Close this article to close the article and clear its name from the article pane.

Tip: The Penpower Chinese Expert (PCE) automatically detects if an article is in Tradi-

tional or Simplied Chinese based on the number of Traditional and Simplied Chinese characters in the article. The PCE will display different images preceding the

le name. indicates that the PCE is not able to recognize if the le is Traditional or Simplied. When an article has more Traditional Chinese characters, will

appear to indicate that the article is written in Traditional Chinese. If there are more

Simplied Chinese characters, will appear. If the article has an equal number of Traditional and Simplied Chinese characters, will appear.

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3.3.4 Abstract

In the main menu, right-click on an article and select Abastract from the option list that appears. The Abstract dialog box will then appear. You can check for information related to the author of the article. You can then press Advanced to edit the information in the abstract.

In the Edit auther information dialog box, you can modify article’s Title, Author,

Email, Telephone, Comment, Password etc. Upon completion, press OK. Return to Abstract dialog box and then press OK.

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3.3.5 Save File

Modied articles that have not yet been saved have an asterisk (*) after their name to

indicate that the article has been modied and hasn’t been saved yet. Click the Save button to save the selected le to the default folder in the .pce format. The asterisk will dis-

appear.

Note: The Save command saves only the currently selected le.

3.3.6 Save as a New File

Click the Save as button then select Save as pce le to open the Location of the article dialog box. Enter the article name and select the directory path then press OK. The

selected article will be saved as a new le in the .pce format.

You can also click Save as text le to save the selected article as a new le in the (.txt) format. There are two format choices available: Article format and Sentence format.

Note: If you use Hanyu Pinyin(standard tone) in the Sentence Segmentation pane then

save it as a text le, Hanyu Pinyin may be displayed as random lines of code because of the used font may not be able to display Hanyu Pinyin. It is recommended to use a font like Times New Roman to display Hanyu Pinyin correctly.

Note: The Save as command saves only the currently selected article as a new le.

3.3.7 Close Chinese Expert

Click the Close button in the upper right corner to exit Penpower Chinese Expert. If there are any unsaved modied documents, you will be asked to save them one by one before exiting. Click Yes to save each article or Save all to save all modied articles.

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3.4 Sentence Segmentation

Sentences can be quickly split into segments of distinct words using the smart sentence segmentation technology to make learning words easier for you so you are able to understand the entire sentence.

3.4.1 Automatic Sentence Segmentation

Press the Sentence Segmentation button, when the button looks indented, right-click

desired article’s name to launch option list. You can then change the Pinyin display format from the Pinyin Settings option. Upon completion, the software will display Chinese Pinyin in Sen- tence Segmentation from in accordance to your preferred format and then complete the sentence segmentation.

The Pinyin Setting can be set to Zhuyin, Hanyu pinyin (numeric tone) or Hanyu pinyin (standard tone). If Hanyu pingyin is selected, the pinyin is displayed in the English pane. You can refer to this pane to learn the Hanyu pinyin for each character.

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Selecting Hanyu pinyin (numeric tone) displays the Hanyu pinyin with numbers to indicate the tone of the character as displayed on the right:

Selecting Zhuyin shows the Zhuyin as on the right:

Zhuyin can help you learn the Zhuyin used for each word.

Penpower Chinese Expert automatically breaks the entire article down into individual sentences. Each sentence is then indexed on the left side in the article pane. Click an individual entry to display and edit the selected sentence. Though this function, you will be able to understand an entry sentence by sentence. You can also construct your own sentences, change words and make recordings.

The Sentence Segmentation command can separate words and terms from within a sentence. Separating terms and words from each other can help you learn the elements of the sentence to understand the meaning of the sentence.

Word Term Term

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3.4.2 Basic Chinese Learning Functions in the Sentence Segmentation Pane

Tip-Show Translation and Note

In the Penpower Chinese Expert Sentence Segmentation pane, you can hover

the cursor on any word or term to see the English translation and a few notes pertaining to the selected word or term.

Lookup Online

To look up the online translation of any word or term, hover the cursor on the word or term, and right-click and then click Search on web to connect directly to the YAHOO Dictionary web page.

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Note: If the word being translated is in Traditional Chinese, for example 爭光, you will be

linked to the Yahoo! Taiwan Dictionary website. If the word is in Simplied Chi- nese, for example 爭光, you will be linked to the Yahoo! China Dictionary website. If the words are written exactly the same in Traditional or Simplied Chinese, for example 昨天, the PCE will link to the Yahoo! China Dictionary website.

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TTS Speech

The Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthetic speech technology allows you to hear words on-screen, allowing you to listen to the pronunciation and tones of the words. Hover the cursor on a word or term, right-click and then click Text to speech to hear the word or term.

Change Pronunciation

Certain words may have multiple pronunciations. 紐約, for example, has two possible tones for 約. Hover the cursor on

and right-click to bring up the menu.

約

Click Tone modication. In the Phrase input dialog box, select a pronunciation for 約.

Show Standard Trace

The Penpower Chinese Expert can display how Chinese characters in a step-by-step display. Showing the proper stroke order for any Chinese characters, you will learn how to properly write any character.

Hover the cursor on the word or term to see the trace. For a term such as 紐約 right-click the term to open the menu. Click Character tracing, then select the character 紐 to trace. An animation of how to write the character 紐 is shown along with other details about the character.

Use the Ink Speed slider to adjust the writing speed.

Word details show that its radical is and its stroke count is 7.

Click Replay to study the stroke order for the word again.

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Click Practice to open the Practice dialog box where you can practice writing the character. When done, you can click Grade for the program to evaluate your written character. Click Erase to repeat the practice session.

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Quickly Open Phrase Database

Double-click a word or term to search for the word in the phrase database. For example, for the term 台灣, you can quickly open the phrase database to check the pronunciation, meaning, meaning, notes, or even modify the pronunciation of this term.

Note : If the selected phrase is not in the phrase database, the Phrase Input dialog box

will display. You can then add notes and the edit the pronunciation though the Phrase Input box. The edited phrase will then be added to phrase database.

Double click it

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3.4.3 Build Phrase Manually

Certain terms such as names and other pronouns may not always be properly segmented. You must build the phrase with the Build Phrase Manually method to add it into the phrase database.

For example, 洋基 is the name of a baseball team, but the name is broken down into two separate words: 洋 and 基. You can build the phrase manually by combining the two into one term 洋基 and then adding the word into the database.

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Click the sentence

這裡有建仔代表洋基出戰天敵天使隊

in the article pane. In the Sentence Segmentation pane, the term 洋基 is split into two separate words 洋 and 基. In the Chinese pane, select and right-clcik 洋基. Click Build phrase to combine 洋 and 基 into one new term, 洋基.

Before

Build phrase

After

Click the Phrase database button to open the Penpower Chinese Expert phrase

database dialog box. 洋基 is now listed in the phrases.

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3.4.4 Redo Phrase Segmentation

Phrases built in one particular sentence will not be automatically combined in other sentences. Phrase building only combines words and terms in the current sentence. If the term appears in other sentences, use the Redo phrase segmentation command to quickly combine them all.

For example, in section 3.4.3 we constructed a new term by combining words 洋 and 基 in the sentence When clicking the sentence

這裡有建仔代表洋基出戰天敵天使隊

終場洋基12：0大勝天使, 洋基

not one single term. In this situation the Redo phrase segmentation command is available.

Simply click the button to redo phrase segment the sentence and combine 洋 and 基 into the term 洋基.

Before redo phrase segmentation

and added it to the term database.

is still two separate words and

After redo phrase segmentation

Note: The Penpower Chinese Expert comes with an extensive pre-dened term database

and when manually constructed terms are assigned, they rank lower than terms already existing in the database. If a manually constructed term is a part of a larger default term, the Redo Phrase Segmentation function can’t be performed on other sentences in the article that contain this term manually construted term. For example, the default system term database already contains this term

天長地久

. If you manually build the term 天長 in a certain sentence so that it is now two separate terms 天長 and 地久, you won’t be able to use the Redo Phrase Segmentation command to separate

天長地久

in other sentences.

3.4.5 Print

Click the Print button to print the segmented article or sentence in the Sentence

Segmentation pane.

Chapter 3 Using the Chinese Expert

3.5 Auto Insert all Phrases

Press the Auto insert all phrases button, and the system will display a Please select

the words dialog box. You can select one word at a time, or press the Add all button to

import all of the words on the left column into the word database (self-select) on the right column, then press OK.

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Click the Phrase database button. In the Penpower Chinese Expert Phrase Data-

base dialog box, you can see all of the phrases in the article now listed in the database.

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Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Chapter 1 Product Features

1.1 Product Features

1.2 Version Introduction

1.2.1 Writing Pad Version

1.2.2 Pen Scanner Version

1.2.3 Standard Version

Chapter 2 Installation

2.1 System Requirements

2.2 Installation

Chapter 3 Using the Chinese Expert

3.1 Starting Penpower Chinese Expert

3.2 Introduction to the Main Interface

3.2.1 Translation Mode

3.2.2 Word Segmentation Mode

3.3 File Management

3.3.1 New Article

3.3.2 Opening an Existing File

3.3.3 Closing an article

3.3.4 Abstract

3.3.5 Save File

3.3.6 Save as a New File

3.3.7 Close Chinese Expert

3.4 Sentence Segmentation

3.4.1 Automatic Sentence Segmentation

3.4.2 Basic Chinese Learning Functions in the Sentence Segmentation Pane

3.4.3 Build Phrase Manually

3.4.4 Redo Phrase Segmentation

3.4.5 Print

3.5 Auto Insert all Phrases