Automatic Addition of Genre Information in a Japanese Dictionary

This article presents the method used for the automatic addition of genre information to the Japanese entries in a Japanese-French dictionary. The dictionary is intended for a wide audience, ranging from learners of Japanese as a second language to researchers. The genre characterization is based on the statistical analysis of corpora representing different genres. We will discuss the selection of genres and corpora, the tool and method of analysis, the difficulties encountered during this analysis and their solutions

Information retrieval · Linguistics · Machine translation · Natural language processing · Parallel corpora · Statistical analysis · Statistics · Authorship Attribution and Profiling · Computer Science · Lexicography and Language Studies · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence