Semantic Annotation of Japanese Functional Expressions and its Impact on Factuality Analysis

Sentence Suggestion of Japanese Functional Expressions for Chinese-speaking Learners

We present a computer-assisted learning system, Jastudy, which is particularly designed for Chinese-speaking learners of Japanese as a second language (JSL) to learn Japanese functional expressions with suggestion of app…

Simplification of Example Sentences for Learners of Japanese Functional Expressions

Learning functional expressions is one of the difficulties for language learners, since functional expressions tend to have multiple meanings and complicated usages in various situations. In this paper, we report an expe…

Detecting Japanese Compound Functional Expressions using Canonical/Derivational Relation

The Japanese language has various types of functional expressions. In order to organize Japanese functional expressions with various surface forms, a lexicon of Japanese functional expressions with hierarchical organizat…

Construction and Validation of a Japanese Honorific Corpus Based on Systemic Functional Linguistics

In Japanese, there are different expressions used in speech depending on the speaker’s and listener’s social status, called honorifics. Unlike other languages, Japanese has many types of honorific expressions, and it is …

Automatic Error Correction on Japanese Functional Expressions Using Character-based Neural Machine Translation