Name
Abstract | ||
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We have developed a method that makes it easier for language beginners to look up Japanese kanji characters. Instead of using the arbitrary conventions of kanjis, this method is based on three simple prototypes: horizontal, vertical, and other strokes. For example, the code for the kanji (ta, meaning rice field) is ‘3-3-0', indicating the kanji consists of three horizontal strokes and three vertical strokes. Such codes allow a beginner to look up kanjis even with no knowledge of the ideographic conventions used by native speakers. To make the search easier, a complex kanji can be looked up via the components making up the kanji. We conducted a user evaluation of this system and found that non-native speakers could look up kanjis more quickly and reliably, and with fewer failures, with our system than with conventional methods. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2006 | 10.1007/11940098_32 | ICCPOL |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
native speaker,stroke prototype,conventional method,rice field,ideographic convention,non-native speaker,horizontal stroke,language beginner,vertical stroke,fewer failure,arbitrary convention | Furigana,Lookup table,Multilingualism,Computer science,Speech recognition,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Ideogram,Kanji | Conference |
Volume | ISSN | ISBN |
4285 | 0302-9743 | 3-540-49667-X |
Citations | PageRank | References |
3 | 0.51 | 2 |
Authors | ||
2 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii | 1 | 261 | 36.69 |
| Julian Godon | 2 | 5 | 0.89 |