ctext.org Tools API
The Chinese Texts Project Tools API
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This API is best for obtaining and manipulating Chinese texts, providing tools for searching and working with collections of classical Chinese literature.
This API is an excellent resource for developers looking to access an extensive catalogue of historical Chinese texts and to utilize associated search and analytics tools. Through its versatile usage of data, developers are able to gain insights into the structure and meaning of classical Chinese literature on an individual or systemic level.
Key features
- Searching full-text indexed classical Chinese texts
- accessing analytics and graphs of sentence length
- obtaining particular segments of text and citation formatting tools.
Potential use cases
- Sentence Length Analysis Tool: Develop a web application which allows users to view the distribution of sentence lengths in works of classical Chinese literature.
- Search Recommender System: Develop a machine learning-based recommendation engine which provides relevant search suggestions to users based on previously performed searches.
- Semi-Automatic Bibliography Creator: Develop an application which searches for references to a text based on its citation information, and displays the complete bibliography for the text.
The ctext.org Tools API has allowed us to access a rich reservoir of Classical Chinese texts and gain greater insight into the structure of this literature. It has been a fantastic resource in our research project.
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