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SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Generating diverse katakana variants based on phonemic mapping
In Japanese, it is quite common for the same word to be written in several different ways. This is especially true for katakana words which are typically used for transliterating ...
Kazuhiro Seki, Hiroyuki Hattori, Kuniaki Uehara
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Web-based acquisition of Japanese katakana variants
This paper describes a method of detecting Japanese Katakana variants from a large corpus. Katakana words, which are mainly used as loanwords, cause problems with information retr...
Takeshi Masuyama, Hiroshi Nakagawa