A Paraphrasing System for Transforming Regular Expressions into Honorifics

Honorifics in Japanese plays an incredibly important role in all walks of social life. The demand to transform regular expressions in Japanese into honorifics automatically has increased rapidly especially in business situations. This paper reviews existing studies and proposes a system to fill this demand with more practicable functions. The experiment shows the effectiveness of our strategy.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Dongli Han, Shuntaro Kamochi, Xin Song, Naoki Akegawa, Tomomasa Hori
• Keywords: COLING 2010, Computational Linguistics, Honorifics, Important Role, Japanese Plays