| Presentation | 2015-06-04 Analysis of Sentence End Expressions and Assessment of Their Difficulty for Japanese Learners as a Second Language Hideki Tanaka, Tadashi Kumano, Isao Goto, |
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| Abstract(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Abstract(in English) | Japan's national public broadcasting corporation, NHK, launched "News Web Easy" in April 2012. This web service provides users with five daily simplified news scripts of "easy" Japanese news. Since its inception, this service has been favorably received both in Japan and overseas. Users particularly appreciate its value as a Japanese learning and teaching resource. In this paper, we focus on difficulty levels of sentence-end expressions, compiled from the news, that create ambiguity and problems when rewriting news items. These are analyzed and compared within regular news and News Web Easy, and their difficulty is assessed based on Japanese learners' reading comprehension levels. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | news / sentence end expression / reading comprehension / questionnaire |
| Paper # | TL2015-7,NLC2015-7 |
| Date of Issue | 2015-05-28 (TL, NLC) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | NLC / TL |
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| Conference Date | 2015/6/4(2days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | The University of Tokushima |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Application of natural language proessing and linguistic analysis, and general topic of NLP |
| Chair | Koichi Takeuchi(Okayama Univ.) / Tadahisa Kondo(Kogakuin Univ.) |
| Vice Chair | Hiroshi Kanayama(IBM) / Makoto Ichise(NTT DoCoMo) / Chiaki Kubomura(Yamano College of Aesthetics) / Masami Suzuki(KDDI R&D Labs.) |
| Secretary | Hiroshi Kanayama(Univ. of Tokyo/Hottolink) / Makoto Ichise(Ryukoku Univ.) / Chiaki Kubomura(Univ. of Tsukuba) / Masami Suzuki(Kyorin Univ.) |
| Assistant | Kazutaka Shimada(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.) / Ryuichiro Higashinaka(NTT) / Eiji Tomida(Ehime Univ.) / Yasushi Tsubota(Kyoto Univ.) |
| Paper Information | |
| Registration To | Technical Committee on Natural Language Understanding and Models of Communication / Technical Committee on Thought and Language |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | Analysis of Sentence End Expressions and Assessment of Their Difficulty for Japanese Learners as a Second Language |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | news |
| Keyword(2) | sentence end expression |
| Keyword(3) | reading comprehension |
| Keyword(4) | questionnaire |
| 1st Author's Name | Hideki Tanaka |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Japan Broadcasting Corporation(NHK) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Tadashi Kumano |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Japan Broadcasting Corporation(NHK) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Isao Goto |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Japan Broadcasting Corporation(NHK) |
| Date | 2015-06-04 |
| Paper # | TL2015-7,NLC2015-7 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.115 |
| Number (no) | TL-69,NLC-70 |
| Page | pp.pp.37-42(TL), pp.37-42(NLC), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2015-05-28 (TL, NLC) |