Automatic Addition of Genre Information in a Japanese Dictionary

This article presents the method used for the automatic addition of genre information to the Japanese entries in a Japanese-French dictionary. The dictionary is intended for a wide audience, ranging from learners of Japanese as a second language to researchers. The genre characterization is based o...

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Main Author: Raoul BLIN
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2012-10-01
Series:Acta Linguistica Asiatica
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Online Access:https://journals.uni-lj.si/ala/article/view/192
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description This article presents the method used for the automatic addition of genre information to the Japanese entries in a Japanese-French dictionary. The dictionary is intended for a wide audience, ranging from learners of Japanese as a second language to researchers. The genre characterization is based on the statistical analysis of corpora representing different genres. We will discuss the selection of genres and corpora, the tool and method of analysis, the difficulties encountered during this analysis and their solutions.
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spelling doaj.art-5109da30cb3f4eac9891d2f3f6141e592023-01-18T08:22:09ZengUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Acta Linguistica Asiatica2232-33172012-10-012210.4312/ala.2.2.83-96Automatic Addition of Genre Information in a Japanese DictionaryRaoul BLIN This article presents the method used for the automatic addition of genre information to the Japanese entries in a Japanese-French dictionary. The dictionary is intended for a wide audience, ranging from learners of Japanese as a second language to researchers. The genre characterization is based on the statistical analysis of corpora representing different genres. We will discuss the selection of genres and corpora, the tool and method of analysis, the difficulties encountered during this analysis and their solutions. https://journals.uni-lj.si/ala/article/view/192dictionarycorpusstyleJapanese
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Automatic Addition of Genre Information in a Japanese Dictionary
Acta Linguistica Asiatica
dictionary
corpus
style
Japanese
title Automatic Addition of Genre Information in a Japanese Dictionary
title_full Automatic Addition of Genre Information in a Japanese Dictionary
title_fullStr Automatic Addition of Genre Information in a Japanese Dictionary
title_full_unstemmed Automatic Addition of Genre Information in a Japanese Dictionary
title_short Automatic Addition of Genre Information in a Japanese Dictionary
title_sort automatic addition of genre information in a japanese dictionary
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corpus
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Japanese
url https://journals.uni-lj.si/ala/article/view/192
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