Bringing the dictionary to the user: the FOKS system
COLING '02 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Text Entry Systems: Mobility, Accessibility, Universality
Text Entry Systems: Mobility, Accessibility, Universality
Orthographic similarity search for dictionary lookup of Japanese words
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on ECAI 2008: 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Measuring and predicting orthographic associations: modelling the similarity of Japanese kanji
COLING '08 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
Predicting and compensating for lexicon access errors
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
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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.