Systemic Functional Perspectives of Japanese - Descriptions and Applications - Elizabeth A. Thomson

Systemic Functional Perspectives of Japanese - Descriptions and Applications - Elizabeth A. Thomson

A computational model of language in context and its application to the understanding of Japanese text

Systemic Functional Perspectives of Japanese - Descriptions and Applications - Elizabeth A. Thomson

Noriko Ito [+-]
Doshisha University
Noriko Ito is an Associate Professor at Doshisha University, Japan. She researches systemic functional linguistics. An important publication is Ito, N., Sugimoto, T., Iwashita, S., Kobayashi, I. and Sugeno M. (2007) An analysis of rhetorical structure of Japanese instructional texts and its application to dialogue based question answering systems. Japanese Journal of Systemic Functional Linguistics vol 4: 83–104.
Toru Sugimoto [+-]
Shibaura Institute of Technology
Toru Sugimoto is a Professor at Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan. He researches in the area of natural language processing. A recent important publication is Sugimoto, T., Ito N. and Iwashita, S. (2007) A proposal of a languagebased context sensitive programming system. Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics vol. 11 no. 8: 1015–1022.

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This chapter describes the development of a computational model for a language system, in this case, Japanese which includes context as well as an algorithm for text understanding. This algorithm is based on the WAG systemic parser (O’Donnell, 1994), but is significantly extended to incorporate the results of an existing (non-systemic)parser and machine readable dictionary. This paper is concerned with computational methods for constructing a linguistic database, based on both the Systemic Functional model of language and an algorithm for Japanese text understanding based on the database. By way of explaining the lexicogrammatical and semantic dimensions, the results of analyses of sample texts and relevant system networks in the Wording Base and the Meaning Base are shown.

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Ito, Noriko; Sugimoto, Toru. A computational model of language in context and its application to the understanding of Japanese text. Systemic Functional Perspectives of Japanese - Descriptions and Applications. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 285 - 323 Apr 2013. ISBN 9781845530532. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=18666. Date accessed: 29 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.18666. Apr 2013

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