Abstract
Japanese honorifics establish the social and working relationship of people and it is indispensable in a conversation. In this research, we examine the use of Constraint-Based Modelling (CBM) and its implementation for developing a tutoring system for Japanese honorifics. We focus on implementing CBM for one form of honorifics called sonkeigo and we represent its formation through constraints. We demonstrate an implementation of a reading assistant tutor using CBM for rewriting sonkeigo expressions to their regular form and vice-versa by pattern matching via constraints.
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Sonkeigo is also known as the honorific polite form or the exalted form.
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Kenjougo is also referred to as the humble form.
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Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (BCCWJ) contains approximately 104.3 million words from 11 sources such as books, magazines, newspapers, white papers, textbooks, PR sheets, Yahoo! Chiebukuro, Yahoo! Blog, poems, the law, national parliament meeting records. See for more information: http://pj.ninjal.ac.jp/corpus_center/bccwj/en/.
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MeCab was used with UniDic instead of the IPA dictionary. UniDic is maintained by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL), Center for Corpus Development. See: http://pj.ninjal.ac.jp/corpus_center/unidic/.
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Chung, Z.T., Utsuro, T., Rodrigo, M.M. (2017). Constraint-Based Modelling as a Tutoring Framework for Japanese Honorifics. In: André, E., Baker, R., Hu, X., Rodrigo, M., du Boulay, B. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10331. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61425-0_45
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