Japanese-English in Temple

Japanese Morphology

The Japanese morphological analyzer is to be incorporated in Temple as a part of the general morphological analysis functionality. The glossary look-up and lexicon look-up functions work on the text annotated by the result of the morphological analysis system, Juman, which has been developed at Kyoto University under supervision of Dr.Nagao.

To illustrate, consider the following sentence: "私は昨日学校へ行った。" Juman's first pass produces the analysis:

私	(わたくし)	私	普通名詞
は	(は)	は	副助詞
昨日	(きのう)	昨日	普通名詞
学校	(がっこう)	学校	普通名詞
へ	(へ)	へ	格助詞
行った	(おこなった)	行う	動詞	子音動詞ワ行	タ形
。	(。)	。	句点

Notice the sixth row,"行った" for "行う" as a stem (or basic form) instead of "行く" which is the right analysis. Juman will produce all possible analyses if you choose to do so.

The third column of Juman's output, a stem or basic form, is used for an entry into our dictionary database in order to obtain its translations. Also the fourth column is used for the part of speech of the word in our system.

Computer Analysis of Japanese Morphology

For the purpose of computer analysis, Juman's output were slightly modified to fit into our system. First of all, the fourth column of Juman's output was translated to English: 普通名詞 -> noun, 動詞 -> verb, and so on.