This paper proposes two methods of query expansion for retrieving paraphrase candidates indexed by Kanzi (Chinese) characters. The idea is to calculate similarity between Kanzi ch...
We propose a real-time retrieval method for document images in various languages. In this method, queries are images of documents captured by a web-camera. The document images cor...
In Japanese, there are a large number of notational variants of words. This is because Japanese words are written in three kinds of characters: kanji (Chinese) characters, hiragar...
Aya Nishikawa, Ryo Nishimura, Yasuhiko Watanabe, Y...
The recent enormous increase in the use of networked information access and on-line databases has led to more databases being available in languages other than English. The Center...
Translation of proper names is generally recognized as a significant problem in many multi-lingual text and speech processing applications. Even when large bilingual lexicons use...