Japanese sentence pattern learning with the use of illustrative examples extracted from the web
Dongli Han, Xin Song · IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering · 2011
Abstract It is quite difficult for a foreigner to compose a Japanese sentence comparing with the case of speaking Japanese. Two main factors are supposed to be leading to this situation. One is the scale of Japanese vocabulary and another is the variousness of Japanese sentence patterns. As most Kanji characters are common in Chinese and Japanese, the more confusing issue for native Chinese‐speaking foreigners is the latter one. There are many sentence patterns in Japanese to express different meanings in various situations. In this paper, we first make a survey on existing strategies to support foreigners to compose Japanese sentences, and then develop a system for native Chinese‐speaking foreigners to learn Japanese sentence patterns with the use of illustrative examples extracted from the Web in a practical and convenient way. Finally, we conduct some experiments to examine the effectiveness of our approach. © 2011 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.