CJKV Information Processing, 2nd Edition

Natural Language Processing

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(bunsho kōsei shien kinō) feature. EDICOLOR, and thus SpellViser, are now owned and

developed by Canon.

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Apparently, SpellViser was licensed to Microso for MS Word-J, to

Corel for its Japanese versions of Word Perfect and DRAW, to ERGOSOFT for EGWord,

and to Kuni Research for Eudora Pro-J.

JustSystems also developed a similar Japanese grammar-checking technology called 

(shūta). It is included in their Japanese word processor called  (ichitarō), and it is

made accessible through its  (bunsho kōsei) feature.

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Chinese-Chinese Conversion

Chinese is discussed throughout this book in the context of Simplied versus Traditional,

whereby the former is used in China and in Singapore, and the latter is used in Taiwan,

Hong Kong, and other regions where Chinese is spoken. While it is easy to fall into the

trap to think that they dier only to the degree to which Simplied Chinese uses sim-

plied ideographs, the truth is far more complex. Converting between these forms of

Chinese is more of a translation than a conversion, because it takes place on many levels:

orthographic, lexemic, and contextual.

In the past, prior to the broad adoption of Unicode, there was a fourth level to consider:

encoding. Simplied Chinese was encoded according to GB 2312-80 or a related character

set standard, and Traditional Chinese was encoded according to Big