Sentence Suggestion of Japanese Functional Expressions for Chinese-speaking Learners (P18-4)
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| Challenge: | a large number of Chinese characters are commonly used both in Chinese and Japanese. |
| Approach: | They propose a computer-assisted learning system for Chinese-speaking learners of Japanese as a second language (JSL) they use a free Japanese morphological analyzer MeCab to learn Japanese functional expressions with suggestion of appropriate example sentences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system automatically recognizes Japanese functional expressions using a free Japanese morphological analyzer and is retrained on a new conditional random field model. |
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