Systemic Functional Perspectives of Japanese - Descriptions and Applications - Elizabeth A. Thomson
The components and structure of the context base, a database for computer text generation
Systemic Functional Perspectives of Japanese - Descriptions and Applications - Elizabeth A. Thomson
Yusuke Takahashi [+]
Justsystems Corporation
Yusuke Takahashi worked for Justsystems Corporation, a software development company in Japan. Unfortunately, he passed away unexpectedly in 2009. His interests included Japanese and English lexicogrammar and semantics for natural language processing, especially for sentiment analysis. A recent collaborative publication is Takahashi, Y., Kobayashi, I., Iwazume, M., Ito, N. and Sugeno, M. (2004) The Contents and Structure of the Context Base, and Its Application. Proceedings of 4th International Conference (EsTAL 2004): 103–114.
Ichiro Kobayashi
Ochanomizu University
Michiaki Iwazume
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Description
This paper describes the construction of a prototype computer system which operates using everyday or commonsense language. It is part of a larger project, the Everyday Language Computing (ELC) project (Kobayashi and Sugeno, 1997; Iwazume et al., 2003; Ito and Sugimoto, 2006) which was conducted at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN ; RIkagaku KENkyujo) in Japan.