Kana-Kanji Converter Based on Semantic Information for Visually Impaired

Masafumi NISHIDA  Yasuo HORIUCHI  Shingo KUROIWA  Akira ICHIKAWA 

Publication
D - Abstracts of IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems (Japanese Edition)  Vol.J95-D  No.4  pp.960-968
Publication Date: 2012/04/01
Online ISSN: 1881-0225
Print ISSN: 1880-4535
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
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Keyword: 
blind persons,  screen reader,  Kana-Kanji converter,  shosaiyomi,  semantic information, 

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Summary: 
Conventionally, blind persons have used a Kana-Kanji converter by shosaiyomi. The method transposes a candidate for Kanji to the Kanji of other word. We propose a novel Kana-Kanji converter using semantic information. We classified the semantic information into High rank word, Similar word, Declined word, Japanese word, Chinese word, and Foreign word. We conducted experiments in Kana-Kanji converter by conventional shosaiyomi method and the proposed method for sighted persons and blind persons. As a result, it demonstrated that the proposed method based on semantic information was effective.