Re:'Fifth Generation' Became Japan's Lost Generation (1992)
by drallison on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @02:10PM
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Moto-oka Tohru and Hideo Aiso often said privately that an unstated goal in the Japanese Fifth Generation project was the creation of a practical way to keyboard written Japanese and that with regard to that issue it was an unqualified success.
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Re:'Fifth Generation' Became Japan's Lost Generation (1992)
by wrp on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @05:04PM
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Linguist James Marshall Unger in his book, The Fifth Generation Fallacy, argued that the primary motivation for FGCS reasearch was to develop NLP for the Japanese writing system. He claimed that the project was doomed to failure because the high level of ambiguity in the Japanese writing system required contextual understanding for even simple processing tasks. In that respect, things went as he predicted. Do Japanese IMEs like ATOK have any heritage in FGCS work?