Computational Linguistics
Kana-kanji conversion system with input support based on prediction
COLING '00 Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
A stochastic Japanese morphological analyzer using a forward-DP backward-A* N-best search algorithm
COLING '94 Proceedings of the 15th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Processing homonyms in the Kana-to-Kanji conversion
COLING '96 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Text Entry Systems: Mobility, Accessibility, Universality
Text Entry Systems: Mobility, Accessibility, Universality
Kansuke: A logograph look-up interface based on a few modified stroke prototypes
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Morphological interfaces to dictionaries
ElectricDict '04 Proceedings of the Workshop on Enhancing and Using Electronic Dictionaries
Computational Linguistics
Kansuke: a kanji look-up system based on a few stroke prototypes
ICCPOL'06 Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages: beyond the orient: the research challenges ahead
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The dictionary look-up of unknown words is particularly difficult in Japanese due to the complicated writing system. We propose a system which allows learners of Japanese to look up words according to their expected, but not necessarily correct, reading. This is an improvement over previous systems which provide no handling of incorrect readings. In preprocessing, we calculate the possible readings each kanji character can take and different types of phonological and conjugational changes that can occur, and associate a probability with each. Using these probabilities and corpus-based frequencies we calculate a plausibility measure for each generated reading given a dictionary entry, based on the naive Bayes model. In response to a reading input, we calculate the plausibility of each dictionary entry corresponding to the reading and display a list of candidates for the user to choose from. We have implemented our system in a web-based environment and are currently evaluating its usefulness to learners of Japanese.