umineko
	japanese verb stemmer

INTRODUCTION
umineko is a dictionary-based suffix stemmer for verbs of the Japanese language. It understands most verbs and conjugations. It will match as possible to a verb in the dictionary file EDICT, and is capable of stemming all conjugations of a verb listed by the Verb Conjugation Display of WWWJDIC (http://www.wwwjdic.com).

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
umineko is a command line program, which will prompt for the verb to stem.

* System locale set to Japanese (code page 932). This is required for proper display of Japanese characters, as command-line display is still  dependent on system locale. Using AppLocale will NOT work, because changing the system locale also changes the font of the command line. If you need help changing the system locale, please visit this link: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/63fe39ac-f098-4322-ba60-8210af13464d1033.mspx
* Japanese input. 
* Windows 2000, XP, or Vista. Because umineko is written in PHP, you can try to run umineko on any platform that supports PHP. Please note that umineko was developed using PHP 6.0 (unicode support) and will not work with earlier versions. To find your PHP version, run php -v. Additionally, UNIX/Linux terminals usually have Unicode support, and Unicode input will confuse umineko.

USAGE
	umineko
	
	umineko will prompt you to enter a verb.
	
LIMITATIONS
	* Because edict lists as proper entries the causative and passive conjugations of a verb, umineko will match to those entries without stating that they are so.
	* Because of the way umineko matches rules, the ruleset it sensitive to order. Although all tested verbs have stemmed correctly, issues in the rule order may cause some verbs to be stemmed incorrectly. This will be addressed with a new matching system that is able to match from the end of the string in a future version. 
	
HISTORY
	2008-05-09 1.0: Initial version released.
	
ABOUT
umineko is copyright 2009 by Timothy Zhu and released under the GPL.